Oskar Hoffmann (painter)

Oskar Georg Adolf Hoffmann (Russian: Оскар Адольфович Гофман; 5 February 1851, Dorpat (Tartu, Estonia) – 3 March 1912, Novaya Derevnya, now part of Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Baltic German painter from the Russian Empire.

Hoffmann's father was a baker and members of his mother's family were involved in the performing arts.

[2] He soon began exhibiting at the local art society and, in 1872, went to Germany, where he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

His primary influences, however, probably came from Gregor von Bochmann, who was only one year older, but had begun his studies in Düsseldorf at the age of eighteen.

In the early 1880s, he briefly returned to Dorpat then, possibly in debt, went to Saint Petersburg where, in 1884, he was granted the status of "Free Artist" by the Imperial Academy of Arts.