1 1 OFF ber of Rotterdam Academy. Since 18G5 he has painted all the figures in his genre scenes in the cos- tume of the times of Louis XIV. and XV. Works: Gyp- sies before Bailiff (18C1) ; Last Ren- dezvous ; The Petti- fogger; Noblesse Oblige ; Ou the Old Field of Battle; Visit of the Bride (1805); Repose during Flight in Time of Louis XIV. (18GG); First Criticism (1808); Return Home (1870); Tartuffe and Elmire (1872) ; Draught on Horseback (187:$) ; Baptism of Posthumous Son (1875), National Gal- lery, Berlin; Son's Last Greeting (1878); Before Departure (1880); Young Lady at Balustrade of Garden-Stairs in Moonlight, Schwerin Gallery. Miiller, 202 ; Leixncr, Mod. K, i. !; ii. 70 ; Zeitsch., xii. (Mittheil- ungen, v. G);D. Rundschau, ix. :$2G; xvii. :!12. HOFF, KONUAD, born in Schwerin, Nov. 1!), 181G, died in Munich, Feb. 18, 188:{. Architecture painter, pupil of Dres- den and Munich Academies ; travelled ex- tensively in Germany and later in North Italy. His architectural views and interiors are distinguished for poetic conception and brilliant colouring. Works: Rococo Cham- ber, View in Church of Our Lady Munich, Renaissance Chamber with Lady Writing (I860) ; Sacristy (1801) ; Interior of Old House in Neuburg ; Staircase in Castle Schleissheim (1HG2); Hall of Country Man- sion, Room of a Cardinal (180,'J), Schwerin Gallery ; Morning after Banquet ; Interior of St. Zeno's Verona, Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice (1804); Basilica on Isle of Torcello (1805); Scuola di San Rocco in Venice, Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, Bedroom of Charles VII. in Schleissheim (1807); Ancestral Hall in Schleissheim ; Last Meeting ; Canal Grande ; Riva degli Schia- voni; Doge's Palace. Kuust-Chronik, xviii. 368 ; Mttller, 262. HOFFMANN, JOSEF, born in Cologne, Oct. 28, 1704, died there, March 0, 1812. German school ; history painter, son of and first instructed by Valentin Hoffmann (a painter of Mentz, who had settled at Cologne before 1704), then pupil of Diisseldorf Acad- emy under Krahe and Linger ; won tin- first prize for decorative painting, then twice (1SOO-1801) the Goethe prize in Wei- mar, and another in 1805 ; visited Paris in 17117. Works : Ulysses and Diomcd sur- prisingCampof the Trojans (1800); Achilles at Court of Lvcoinedcs (1801); Hercules cleaning Stables of Augeas (1805); Diana with Hunting Suite, Ceiling in Audience Chamber, Weimar (sketch of this in ( 'ologne Museum); Ceiling in Choir of St. Martin's. Diisseldorf (17!t:$-'.)4). Mcreurc du Depart- ment de la Ivoi'-r (181'j), 151 GO; Merlo, 182. HOFFMANN, JOSKF, born in Vienna, Julv 22, 18H1. Landscape painter, pupil of Rahl ; went in 1850 to Venire and in 1857 to Greece. From 1858 to 18IJ4 he lived in Rome, perfecting himself by study and intercourse with masters of the German school. Member of Vienna Academy since 1807. Works: Remains of Sanctuary of Venus; Anacreon's Grave (1805); Athens in Time of Pericles; Athens from Gardens of the Queen ; Sabine Mountains near Ole- vano ; Eight Landscapes, Palace Epstein, Vienna; Drama; Idyl and Tragedy; Five Views of Ancient Athens (1870), Palace Sina, Vienna ; Decorations to Magic Flute, Freisehiitz, and Romeo and Juliet (1800), Vienna Opera House ; Four Joys of Life, Kursalon, Vienna ; Burning of Ringtheatre in Vienna (1881); The Hour of Death on Golgotha (1882); Cycle of Landscape's illus- trating the Geological Epochs (1884), Mu- seum of Natural History, Vienna; View of Helgoland (1885). Allgem. K. Ch., ix. 4:54 ; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 259, 407 ; xx. 0:50 ; Mdller, 202 ; Wurzbach, ix. 174 ; /eitsclir. f. b. K., ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 47). H F F M A N N - F A L L E R S L E B 1 1 N , FKANZ, boru in Weimar, May I'.t, 1855.
