Dolores Hoffmann
Dolores Hoffmann is an Estonian stained glass artist who lives and works in Tallinn, with her works decorating the interiors of several churches in Estonia's old town and other public buildings and private businesses internationally.
Dolores Hoffmann
- Born
- 1937 · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Occupation
- artist · painter
- Education
- Estonian Academy of Arts
- Honours
- Merited Artist of Estonian SSR
- Languages
- Estonian · Russian
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Dolores Hoffmann is an Estonian stained glass artist who lives and works in Tallinn, with her works decorating the interiors of several churches in Estonia's old town and other public buildings and private businesses internationally.
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Biography
Hoffmann was born in Leningrad in the USSR in September 1937 to an Estonian mother and a German father, who were both persecuted by the Soviet secret police. Hoffmann grew up in a Russian orphanage speaking Russian, and only arrived in Estonia after WWII in 1945, where she started learning Estonian for the first time and became a "staunch anti-Soviet". She trained as a painter before becoming a glass artist, and converting to Christianity despite religious crackdowns in the USSR.
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Notable works
Television is a Window to the World, Tallinn TV Tower Batumi Piazza, stained glass windows Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn
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Dolores Hoffmann is recorded as artist and painter.
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Life and career
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1937
Dolores Hoffmann born at Saint Petersburg.
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- 1.Aliide Naylor. The woman behind the windows The life and art of Estonian stained glass master Dolores Hoffmann. www.meduza.io. 2024-04-19.
- 2.Kino, Intervjuud: VASTAB DOLORES HOFFMANN II: detsember 2021. www.temuki.ee.
- 3.Fragments of Dolores Hoffman’s Fresco Added to the EKA Museum Collection. www.artun.ee.
- 4.Franz Nieler: Parcours.
- 5.Karl Nieler.
- 6.Base de données des récipiendaires des décorations nationales estoniennes sur le site web de la présidence estonienne (www.president.ee).
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