Born 1944 in Chemnitz, Germany. Graphic artist, painter and sculptor.

Trained repro photographer (61-65) and freelance artist (69-74) at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Dresden. Master studies for prof. Bondzin (74-77).

Since his first participation in an exhibition for "Young Artists" in Berlin in 1976, Michael Hofmann has exhibited separately and in group exhibitions more than a hundred times, including at Galleri Schmidt-Rottluff in Chemnitz (83, 96), the Xylon Museum in Schweizingen (90) the Graphics Fair in Dresden (multiple times), Art Multiple in Düsseldorf (98) 100 significant graphic artists from Saxony (recurring), Kreuzkirche in Dresden (03) several different galleries in Dresden and Germany and "Artists Posters from East Germany 1967-1990 at Gray Art Gallery in New York in 2010.

Michael Hofmann has been hired to make church windows for, among other things, the churches in Gera-Lusan, Gera-Langenberg, Schleiz and Halsbrücke as well as for the private chapel "Gertrud Stein"

He is represented in public collections in, among others, the National Museum, the City Museum and the "New Masters Gallery" in Dresden, Museum Altenburg, the Graphics Museum in Greiz, Sammlung Schreiner at the German National Museum in Nuremberg and the German Library in Leipzig.

Participated in gallery Pictor's exhibition New graphics 3/4-1/5 2011 and showed more woodcuts in the exhibition Vår at Pictor 6/4-27/4 2014.