[1] In 1940, Hofmann fled to England to escape persecution during the Nazi German occupation of Prague.
[2][1] Hofmann's first solo show didn't come until 1959, an exhibition at the Photographic Society of New Zealand's Tauranga convention.
There was a revival of interest in Hofmann and his work in the late 1980s as a retro icon of New Zealand modernist taste.
[1] Hofmann married editor and poet Helen Lilian Shaw in Auckland on 24 December 1941.
[1] During his time at the Prague Photographic Society, he acquired a knack of both Romantic Pictorialism and modernist New Objectivity.