Scope and Contents This well illustrated book provides the definitive review of Hoffmeister's works and his life.According to John Vloemans (internet)" Adolf Hoffmeister was undoubtedly one of the most pittoresque figures of the intellectual and artistic scene in Prague during the interbellum. His was a restless and unconventional spirit, that could not be classified. He was born on August 15, 1902 in Prague into a well-to-do family. Adolf Hoffmeister was described as an elegant globetrotter and art connoisseur, a gourmand,who had a special bond with the magic power of his hometown Prague. He was at once a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, stage decorator, author, playwright,translator, journalist, radio reporter, professor of art, art critic, politician,diplomat, cultural ambassador and world traveller. No wonder he cannot be classified in any of the artistic schools of his country.What he carries his whole life, was his left-intellectual faith, as so many of his generation did. In October 1920 he...

Scope and Contents The work of Hoffmeister is presented in this catalogue in several phases. Following his early realistic prints and paintings in the 1920's, the artist composed line drawing cartoons of many of his contemporaries, including Man Ray, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovski, and James Joyce. By the 1930's the drawings became more political in subject matter and included cartoons of an exhibition consisting of identical Hitler portraits and sculptures, Picasso painting Guernica, and Louis Aragon holding an immense flag. In the 1960's, Hoffmeister employed collage elements with drawn additions for literary illustration, for example, in the works of Jules Verne. A collage in this series, "Around the World in Eighty Days," is reproduced in this book that is held by the Sackner Archive. It depicts a scene of a parade for the election of a person named 'Kamerfield,' and uses English texts clipped from newspapers and periodicals. During this period, Hoffmeister created collages of...

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Hoffmeister made the illustrations and dust jacket for the book. The original collage for the iIlustration, "Vote for Kamerfield," that is reproduced on page 173 of the novel is held by the Sackner Archive. This translation is based upon the Czechoslavakian version published in 1959. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several of the illustrations that consist of collages and drawings are also reproduced in the major Hoffmeister catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Karvus wrote the text and Hoffmeister illustrated it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister made the illustrations and dust jacket for the book. The original collage for the iIlustration, "Vote for Kamerfield," that is reproduced on page 189 of the novel is held by the Sackner Archive. In this book, Jules Verns is designated as Julius Verne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister wrote this book and composed the illustrations and designed the dust jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with Hoffmeister travel encounters around the world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This complex collage, an illustration for Jules Verne's "Aound the World in Eighty Days," depicts a parade and a mob scene with American voting slogans and company names. The main image was cut from an engraving done around 1900. An exhibition catalogue of Kolar, Mesens, Schwitters & Hoffmeister at Grosvenor Gallery, st that Hoffmeister "...was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image." Wescher (Collage 1968) wrote that he was the grand master of collage. This collage is depicted in Adolf Hoffmeister This collage is not depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister book 1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 283. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collage is depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 238. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of documentation of collective exhibitions involving Hoffmeister in the 1920s, critical essays, several plays and music scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister composedmade the illustrations, designed the dust jacket and end papers. The text hints at experimental typography with varied size bold face letters and inserted tables. This is Ehrenburg's first novel, written in twenty-eight days in Belgium in 1921, during his forced tour of Europe after his expulsion from Russia and then France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This surrealistic work by Hoffmeister achieves its visual impact by inversion of an anatomic section of the lungs and the connection of the trachea to two industrial tool objects (for making weapons?) to form the letter 'Y." It is balanced on either side by an inverted, anatomic image of the larynx and the profile of a soldier wearing a protective eye mask as well as a mouth mask connected with tubing to an ill defined cannister, presumably as protection against poisonous gas. The poem might be interpreted as Why ('Y') do we have to wars that kill with poisonous gas? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister did the cover and provided an illustration for the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of Hoffmeister's text, collages and drawings dealing with his travel through South and Central America as well as Mexico and Cuba. Caricatures of Fidel Castro, Jose Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros are depicted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text appears to be short biographies of European poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book consists of illustrated interviews and essays about European artistic and literary figures from the 1920s to 1960s written and depicted with caricatures by Hoffmeister.Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973) was a poet, novelist, artist, translator and editor. He edited one of the main Czech daily newspapers, Lidove noviny (1928-30) and the main literary paper, Literarní noviny (1930-32). He was also a talented artist and caricaturist, often illustrating his own work. Hoffmeister set up an anti-fascist magazine, Simplicus, in the 1930s after the German satiric magazine Simplicissimus was banned by the Nazis. He also wrote the libretto for a children's opera, Brundibar, with music by the Czech composer Hans Krasa in 1938; the opera was performed fifty-five times by children in Terezín concentration camp where Krasa was interned. Hoffmeister emigrated to France in 1939, but moved on to Morocco when France fell. There, he was arrested but escaped from an internment camp and arrived...

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This book deals with Hoffmeister's travel to China. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of essays, poems, and caricatures about and contributed by Czech artists, architects, poets, and writers. It also depicts paintings by Hoffmeister from the 1910s and 1920s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.