Biography
Books, illustrations, wood engravings, stained-glass windows. Swiss. Born 18 April 1911 in Aarau, Switzerland. 1931-3: studied at the Karlsruhe Kunstgewerbeschule. 1933-4: studied at the Berlin Staatsschule für freie und angewandte Kunst: a teacher was Hans Meid. 1953-9: worked with Gotthard de Beauclair on several books issued by the Trajanus-Presse. Later illustrated children’s books. Designed stained-glass windows in churches in Aarau and Bern. Died 16 June 1975.
Writings by
- Felix Hoffmann/Seine Arbeit im Buch, in Glas, auf der Wand (with and ), Aarau and Frankfurt a.M.: Sauerländer, 1971
- Tagebuchblätter von Felix Hoffmann den Jahren 1955-75, Aarau: AT-Verlag, 1981
Writings about
- Felix Hoffmann. Seine Arbeit im Buch, in Glas, auf der Wand, Aarau/Frankfurt a.M.: Sauerländer, 1971 and ,
- Lexikon der zeitgenosischen Schweitzer Künstler, 1981
- 2000 ,
- Modern German Book Design , 1959, p. 15
- Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Munich, London, New Providence: K.G. Saur 1995- (from 1997: Munich only)., 1997
- ‘On the book illustrations by Feliz Hoffmann’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., March 1961, pp. 24-33 ,