This exhibition of cartoons, illustrations and collages represents a selection of Adolf Hoffmeister's work. There are several works from 1927, such as those of Jean Cocteau and Vlasta Burian, and more from the 1930s, including drawings of Jiří Voskovec and Ján Werich, Jaroslav Ježek and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the President of the Republic, together with Edvard Beneš. During the post-war years, he did caricatures of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque and others. Hoffmeister also drew important figures from the ranks of writers of the 1950s and 1960s, such as: Milan Kundera, Ľudovít Vaculík and Josef Škvorecký. His drawings were always based on personal meetings.

Illustrations

Hoffmeister's illustrations are represented by line drawings for the children’s travel book Ďalekohľad (Telescope), which he also wrote. The book, which was published in the 1950s, featured realistic and non-stylized drawings. In another book entitled Made in Japan, his style is relaxed and closer to traditional Japanese culture. Other black and white illustrations were created for the travel book Mrakodrapy v pralese (Skyscrapers in the rainforest), while Gold (L'or), the book by Blaise Cendrars, is illustrated by collages.

Collages

After 1969, Hoffmeister was no longer permitted to be publicly active and organize exhibitions. As a result, in June 1973 he organized a private exhibition in his apartment, which featured his collages from the fall of 1972 and the winter and spring of 1973. These collages were not created from classic xylographic cutouts from old periodicals, but foreign color magazines such as Elle, Marie Claire and others. They contained gloomy visions of the future of the world, especially due to the threat of a nuclear or ecological catastrophe, and reflected the atmosphere of the period and the artist’s inner experiences. The collages were given the following titles: Po ľuďoch zostali na svete biele miesta (There are white places left on Earth by humans), Slučka (The loop), Rozbitý život (Broken life),