Welcome to my studio

I wish you an enjoyable visit to my virtual exhibition. The work I have to offer ranges from sketches to the sublime, all executed with the same level of intention and intuition.

Every piece is authentic and unique. There are no prints, no posters and no copies. The paints are enduring, and their medium is stable. Charcoal, oil-colour, watercolour, China ink and acrylics are partly made by myself.

The quality of ground-material such as paper, canvas and domestic leaf-wood-board is the best. For wood sculptures I prefer to use domestic hard woods. Stone sculptures are in granite, marble, limestone and more. And lastly, the collection also contains objects in private possession. Enjoy the tour!

Ordering and Purchasing

First please ask if the object is still available.

Framing

Drawings and watercolours are passé-partout mounted without glass. Paintings in oil, tempera and acrylics on canvas will be delivered unframed.
Usually personal taste and other circumstances determine the frame design. Or we can help you to fit a proper frame.

Pedestals and bases

All sculpture works are on bases of similar quality.

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About the Artist, his work, his opinion

Rainer Hoffmann, 1949, has worked for his entire life in free and independent professions. Educated in Germany/Sweden he has worked as a consultant architect, sculptor and painter. Since 1980 he has lived in Scandinavia's nature and wilderness. His exhibitions have taken place in independent galleries and progressive art halls in Europe, and one in Egypt/Cairo. A mixture of performance-art, ballet, sound-and paint- conception determines his avant-garde position contra his more conventional artefacts. In his drawings Hoffmann wants to be a story-teller. In his paintings he prefers to be involved in psychology and history. In his sculptures he seems to be a quotation maker. These characters are acting together in his performances.

As a lecturer in art-history, architecture-history, and at his workshops in sculpturing in stone and wood, landscape painting as well as model painting, he has a reputation for being able to capture the interest of his students.

Hoffmann developed his painting-technique by studying Caravaggio, Rembrandt, David, Velasquez, Delacroix, Cézanne, Courbet, Corot, Reynolds, Munch etc. Goethe´s Theory of Colours occupied his attention for several years. During his studies at the School of Fine Art in Kassel, Hoffmann was influenced by the "After Second World-War Art Exhibition" ducumenta and its ideas that changed German Post Nazi Art. Jones, Oldenburg, Beuys, Rauschenberg and others merely represented art as various segments of society after the earlier period of German art ended with the Holocaust.

“Modern art has to accept that there have been a few great painters, but they have been individualists, without organic relationship to the social organism. The crafts have declined, the indigenous folk arts of all civilized countries have disappeared, and what we have in the place of great architecture, of architectural painting and sculpture, and of the fine crafts functionally associated with great architecture, are the mass-produced, insensitive fabrications of the machine along with its characteristic by-products of centralization, slums, social neurosis, a devitalized proletariat, a dehumanized intelligentsia”.
by: Herbert Read