Adolf Hoffmeister, The Strange World of Max Ernst, 1960, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, The City of Lost Time, 1964, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, In the Pisces Constellation, 1963, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, Abkhazian Viticultural Landscape on the Shore (from the cycle Typographic Landscapes from the Caucasus), 1959, Newspaper collage, india ink, paper
Adolf Hoffmeister, Thrilling Still Life with Time, 1968, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, The Internal Political Struggle of the Smoothing Irons against the cockerels, 1968, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, Jewish Cemetery in Prague I, 1966, india ink, collage
Adolf Hoffmeister, Toyen. Rozpravy Aventina 5, no. 23, 5 March 1930, cover
Adolf Hoffmeister, costumes for Nevesta (Osvobozene divadlo, 1927)
Adolf Hoffmeister, The Cafe Affair (detail)
Adolf Hoffmeister, The Professional Beauty of Jean Cocteau, 1930, india ink, paper
It’s kind of hilarious how much the Surrealists hated Cocteau.
Adolf Hoffmeister, Exhibition of Cartoons, 1929
This post comes courtesy of art historian calypsospots, who educates the masses with her formidable Czech art archive. More images by Hoffmeister (1902-1973) can be seen in a set devoted to the artist.
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Previously:
—Round My Skull in Eighty Days (Hoffmeister’s illustrations for Verne)
—The First Men in the Moon (Hoffmeister’s illustrations for Wells)
—The Animals Are in Cages (Hoffmeister’s illustrations for Hoffmeister)
