OTTO HOFMANN* (Essen 1907 - 1996 Pompeiana) House by a Lake, 1933 oil/canvas 46.8 x 61 cm monogrammed OH, dated 33 depicted in Expressive Realism in Germany, Vienna 2017, p. 47 ESTIMATE € 5000 - 8000 STARTING PRICE € 5000 Otto Hofmann was a German artist. From 1928 to 1930, he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1930, the Bauhaus organised its own exhibition of his work, and Hofmann was invited by the Jena Art Association for the exhibition "Young Artists from the Bauhaus Dessau". During the Nazi regime, his works were considered degenerate and Hofmann, who was a member of the KPD, fled first to Switzerland and then to Paris. In 1934, he worked for Paul Klee in Bern, but then went back to Germany for family reasons and was drafted in 1939. His work was not appreciated in the GDR, so he moved to West Berlin in 1950 and received the City of Berlin Art Prize in 1953. He then lived as an artist in Paris until 1965 and returned to Berlin as a teacher at the University of Fine Arts from 1966 to 1975. He spent the rest of his life in Pompeiana, Italy. Retrospectives: As part of the exhibition "La poetica del Bauhaus" in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. "Otto Hofmann on his 100th birthday", Jena Municipal Museums, Jena Art Collection, 2007. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.