Richard Hoffmann, painter and sculpturer, was born on 23.11.30 in Lebach, Saar , Germany.

From 1949 to 1954 Richard Hoffmann studied painting at the Saarbrücken State School for Arts and Crafts with Boris Kleint and Frans Masereel and sculpture with Theo Siegle. After passing his diploma, Hoffmann received a scholarship in 1954/55 from the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière in Paris and from 1957 to 1962 he received a scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he studied art history with Will Grohmann and was a master student at the university. He made friends with Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Matthias Koeppel and Arwed Gorella from this period. Numerous study trips took him through Europe, to Asia Minor, the Near East and Africa. From 1969 to 1989 he worked as an art teacher.

From 1963 to 1989, Hoffmann worked almost exclusively on sculpture, and from 1983 he increasingly found his way back to painting. In 1987/1988 he published his first Cell Tectonic Manifesto, followed by the second in 2004.

Hoffmann created numerous large sculptures and fountains in public spaces. Among them is the Peace Memorial on the Schaumberg in Tholey (Saarland) as a large bronze relief, which was created in 1976 on the initiative of French President Charles de Gaulle and Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The more than 5-meter-long bronze relief barriers in front of it were stolen in 2011. The relief barriers, the heads, arms and hands rushing towards each other, are a symbol of the coming together of the peoples in peace.