biografia di Victor HOFFMAN (1834-?)

Birth place: Prussia

Addresses: San Francisco, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, architect, lithographer

Exhibited: Mechanics' Inst. Fairs, 1857-58 (watercolors, architectural drawings, and a lithograph)

Work: Oakland (CA) Mus.

Comments: Lithographed an 1856 view of Sacramento (CA), designed by Thomas Boyd (see entry) and printed by Britton & Rey (see entry). His illustrations appeared in Hutching's Illustrated California Magazine. Hughes places him in San Jose, working as an architect, 1870-75. He returned to San Francisco where he served as architect for the City Hall (destroyed in earthquake of 1906). Nothing further is known of his life from that point.

Sources: G&W; Portfolio (Nov. 1948), 61, repro. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 261.