Othmar Hoffler timeline

Hoffler, Othmar [1]

BORN: March 8,  1893 Buffalo, NY

DIED: 1954 Chicago[2]

MARRIED: Never

TRAINING

1905-c.1911 Albright Art Academy, Buffalo, New York, Urquhart Wilcox[3]

c.1910 Art Students League, Buffalo, NY, Mary B. Cox

1921-1922 Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, Claudio Castelluchio

1921-1922 Academie Colarossi, Naudin

1921-1922 Paris, Henri Morriset

Karl Albert Buehr, Fred De Forest Schook and Charles Schroeder (three years, evenings)[4]

Henry Rankin Poore

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

Commercial illustrator and portrait painter[5]

[1]For commentary on the early part of his career see and Eleanor Jewett, “Paintings by the Staceys,” Chicago Tribune, 3/8/1931, p.L4.

[2]This death date comes from the records of the Union League Club of Chicago.

[3]Hoffler claimed to have entered the school at age 12 and described his time there as “years of misery”. See: “Othmar Hoffler Painter and Illustrator,” Palette & Chisel, Vol. IV, March 1927, p.1. The same age for his entrance is given in “Two Chicago Paintings Bought by Mr. Shaffer,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 3/13/1928, p.3. See also typescript promotional biography, no source, Brown County Public Library, Hoffler file, [BCPL], 1933.

[4]These were all teachers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Records of the school do not confirm he ever studied there as some biographical sources maintain. He may have studied privately with these individuals in Chicago or simply his record was misplaced.

[5]An example of a portrait commission is illustrated Portrait of Peggy, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cummings of Highland Park. Eleanor Jewett, “Amateur Critic Calls Paintings at the Art Institute Show ‘Daubs of Paint’,” Chicago Tribune, 8/21/1932, part 8, p.3.