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Jan Cornelis Hofman, alias Jean Hofman, is a Dutch Post-Impressionnist Art Painter, born on April 12, 1889 in Nieuwer-Amstel (the Netherlands), died April 30, 1966 in Schaerbeek - Brussels (Belgium). He began as decorator and painter of porcelains in Delft (Netherlands). His artistic preferences for post-impressionism result in painting Flanders' landscapes, marines, farms' interiors, still lifes and flowers, but very few portraits. Living in Brussels as from 1913, he was member of the group «L'Effort» and is mainly considered as Belgian artist… ==Biography== * First artistic formation at the orphanage in Dieren-Arnhem where he is placed at the age of ten. * Starts reproducing decorative drawings. * Spends his free time to roam the neighborhood for better apprehending the landscapes. * Is an apprentice with a house painter for a while. * Becomes painter on porcelain, first in Delft, then Makkum. * Resides in Brussels then in Cologne in 1909. * Works mainly in the Netherlands until 1913. * Conscript in spring 1913 but savagely conscientious objector, leaves the Netherlands definitively and settles in Brussels (Belgium) near his sister Anna Alida, who married Frans Buning, childhood friend of the artist whom he knew since the orphanage. * End of the 1st world war, in 1918, marries Maria Marteau and gives his name to her first child, Jean Leon, born on September 15, 1911. * On Octobre 3d 1920, birth of his son Victor. * Moves to Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) in 1931. * In the 30th, becomes regular member of a group of artists and their free workshop «L'Effort». * 1936-1937: Spends nearly two years on the Belgian coast (De Haan, Belgium, Ostend, Koksijde) and devotes himself particularly to his penchant for the marines. Meanwhile, long walks in the surrounding countryside are the pretext for a wide range of subjects of oil paintings captured either in the form of drawings and landscapes as small as 20x30 (which he will reuse as model source until the end of the war and work on more imposing canvas or pannels). * Moves definitively in 1937, Avenue Dailly - Schaerbeek (Brussels), but keeps his workshop, street St. Gudule (opposite the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral), until 1945 year of demolition because of reconstruction work of “The Junction”. * During the World War II, his family will have to hide from Germans in the workshop to escape from enforced works. * Then, until his death, works exclusively in his apartment on the basis of drawings made while having good time during various trips and excursions in Flanders and the Netherlands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Cornelis Hofman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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