Maja Hoffmann

Maja Hoffmann (born 1956) is an avid Jewish-Swiss art collector, art patron, documentary filmmaker, impresario, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the LUMA Foundation in the Provençal city of Arles France.

Hoffmann is the granddaughter of the industrialist Emanuel (Manno) Hoffmann (1896-1932), daughter of Daria Hoffmann-Razumovsky (1925–2002) and the pharmaceutical magnate and renowned naturalist Luc Hoffmann (1923–2016).

Hoffmann’s grandmother, Maja Stehlin (1896–1989), collected Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Jean Tinguely and Georges Braque. She created the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation (whose collection forms the main core of the Schaulager) in 1933 to honour her husband Emanuel, who had died when his car was hit by a train when Maja Hoffmann’s father, Luc, was still a child.

In the 1980s, Maja Hoffmann studied film at the New School and at New York University in New York City. She then made a documentary film about the fishermen of the Sahara. Today, she is part of the shareholder pool made up of descendants of the founder of the Roche Holding AG, which controls the Swiss health-care company Hoffmann-La Roche.

Ms. Hoffmann is mother of two children with the film producer Stanley F. Buchthal, who in some of Hoffmann's films acts as co-executive producer. Buchthal, who comes from Teaneck, New Jersey was a founder of the Bugle Boy company and now runs his own media company, with Liz Garbus, The Dakota Group Limited.

Maja Hoffmann began her art collecting in the 1980s in New York City in the company of Swiss theatre director Werner Düggelin. They encountered and purchased works there by Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Andy Warhol and others.

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