The lines of a life in Moravia and Vienna Born in Příbor, Croatia, in 1870, Josef Maria Gustav Hoffmann moved through a world shaped by the heavy textures of his father's textile factory. His early years in Brtnice/Pirnitz were far from the studios he would later inhabit. He sat in classrooms that felt like prisons, eventually finding a different kind of discipline at the Higher School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. By 1892, the focus ha…