Biography: Hofmann, Frank Simon

Helen Shaw by Frank Hofmann

Frank Hofmann took this portrait of his wife Helen Shaw in the couple's Remuera home in 1952.

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Reference: O.003594

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Peter Ireland. 'Hofmann, Frank Simon', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47374/helen-shaw-by-frank-hofmann (accessed 4 June 2026).