On Wednesday 26 June at 6pm there will be a special free guided tour conducted by the director Paolo Bolpagni, co-curator of the exhibition together with Giovanni Battista Martini. To participate, simply show up by 5.45pm and purchase the entrance ticket (full 5 euros, reduced 3 euros, free for some categories; for information, tel. 0583 467205).

With over one hundred and twenty works on display, including many unpublished works, the exhibition includes works created at the Bauhaus, where Hofmann was a pupil of Albers, Kandinsky, Klee and Schlemmer and, in 1930, his personal exhibition of paintings and drawings was held. Furthermore, the notebooks of the lessons attended between 1928 and 1930 at the Dessau institute are presented. Forcefully conscripted, Hofmann was sent to the front in Russia, where he remained a prisoner until 1946. This difficult period is remembered with a series of watercolors made on letters sent to his wife and friends, and with a group of touching photographs.

Exhibited below are both the works created immediately after the war upon his return to Eastern Germany, in a climate of oppression due to the growing differences with the new communist ruling class, and those created when he restarted his career as a painter, ceramist, designer and teacher at the academy, alternating long stays in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. It is also possible to observe Hofmann's activity in the field of graphics through woodcuts and lithographs created in the second half of the 1940s. Finally, the exhibition dedicates a large space to the works painted during his twenty-year stay in the quiet of the Ligurian hinterland, where the artist lived the last part of his life, at the conclusion of a journey characterized by continuous research in the field of abstractionism. .