BIOGRAPHY

Biography

David Hofmann was born in New Jersey and grew up there and in Washington, DC. In 1960, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and served with the Marine Corps in the U.S., the Far East and on the Cuban Missile Blockade.

He married in 1965 and has two daughters. In 1967, he received a medical separation from the Marine Corps and began a career in the consumer packaging industry where he eventually served as president and CEO of several public and private companies. He received a business certificate from The Darden School at the University of Virginia in the late 1980’s. He also served on the boards of directors of public and private companies in other industries.

Having set a goal in the 1960’s to someday study the Great Books at St. John’s College, in 2004 he entered the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. In 2006 he received a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from the college, focused on the literature and philosophies of Western Civilization. In 2024, he received a second Master of Arts in Eastern Classics at St. John’s. Earlier he had moved his studio to Santa Fe and continues to paint there, as well as the Caribbean and other locations in the United States and Europe.

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