Hans Hofmann
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First generation Abstract Expressionist, Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
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Albert Kotin
Albert Kotin (August 7, 1907–1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. The New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
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Alfred Jensen
: For the Guatemalan-American artist see Alfred Julio Jensen.
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Alfred Julio Jensen
Alfred Julio Jensen (December 11, 1903; Guatemala City, Guatemala – April 4, 1981, Livingston, New Jersey) was an abstract painter. He is best known for his grids of tiny, brightly colored triangles and squares, painted in thick impasto. He was one of a number of artists in the 1960s working with serial images.
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Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately-scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, Performance art, and Installation art was, in turn, influenced by his work.
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Burgoyne Diller
Burgoyne A. Diller (January 13, 1906 – January 30, 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular. Overall, his Geometric abstraction and non-objective style also owe much to his study with Hans Hofmann at the Art Students League of New York. He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists. Diller's abstract work has sometimes been termed "constructivist". He also did figurative and representational works early in his career working as a muralist for the New York City Federal Arts Project. His work is in many major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
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Carl Holty
Carl Robert Holty (1900–1973) was an abstract painter who was born in Freiburg, Germany and came to the United States as an infant. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holty studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the National Academy of Design in New York (1920–21), and at the Hans Hofmann School in Munich (1926).
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Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he promoted the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
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Donald Jarvis
Don Jarvis (1923-2001) was a Canadian abstract artist.
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Fritz Bultman
Fritz Bultman (April 4, 1919 – July 20, 1985) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists.
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George Earl Ortman
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Gerome Kamrowski
Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 – March 27, 2004) was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
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Giorgio Cavallon
Giorgio Cavallon (1904–1989) was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a pioneer Abstract Expressionist.
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Hans J. Hofmann
Hans J. Hofmann (3 Oct. 1936, Kiel, Germany - 19 May 2010, Montreal, Canada)
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Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. She began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions; including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her work has been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the pastic arts in the opening decades of 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.
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Israel Levitan
Israel Levitan (June 13, 1912 – May 17, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Renowned as a sculptor, Levitan also produced paintings, graphics and fine art works on paper.
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Jan Müller (artist)
Jan Müller (1922 – 1958) the New York Figurative Expressionists of the 1950s. According to Carter Ratcliff His paintings usually erect a visual architecture sturdy enough to support an array of standing, riding, levitating figures. Gravity is absent, banished by an indifference to ordinary experience. According to the poet John Ashbery, Müller brings a medieval sensibility to neo-Expressionist paintings.
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Jane Frank
Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media abstract paintings are included in some important public collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992) was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across America and Europe.
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John Hoyland
John Hoyland (born 12 October 1934) is a British artist based in London. He is one of the country's leading abstract painters.
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Joseph Plaskett
Joseph Plaskett (born 12 July 1918 in New Westminster, British Columbia), mainly known as Joe Plaskett, is a Canadian painter. He studied with many prominent Canadian painters like A.Y. Jackson, Jack Shadbolt, Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald. Joe Plaskett was a pupil of Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown in 1947 and 1948.
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Judith Godwin
Judith Godwin is an American abstract painter associated with the Expressionist movement.
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Julius Hatofsky
According to the celebrated New York art critic Hilton Kramer:
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Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on (Long Island) and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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Louise Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky; September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American artist.
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Marisol Escobar
Maria Sol Escobar (born May 22, 1930), otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas.
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Mary Frank
Mary Frank nee Mary Lockspeiser (born in London, England on February 4, in 1933) in she is the only child of American painter, Eleanore Lockspeiser (1909-1986) and English musicologist and art critic, Edward Lockspeiser (1905-1973). She is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor, painter and printmaker/illustrator.
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Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg (1924-12-24 – 2007-12-31) was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition at Knoedler & Company in New York City, as well as several exhibitions at Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles. Additionally, a survey of Goldberg's work will be exhibited at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach in September 2010.
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Michel Tapié
Michel Tapié (Michel Tapié de Céleyran, 1909-1987) was an internationally active French critic, curator, and collector of art. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism. Tapié was from an old and aristocratic French family; he was also a second cousin ("petit-cousin") of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.
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Nicolas Carone
Nicolas Carone (June 4, 1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline Conrad Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
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Perle Fine
Perle Fine (1908–1988) was among the most prominent female artists associated with American Abstract Expressionism.
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Red Grooms
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown’s Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.
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Robert de Niro, Sr.
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Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885, Paris – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who used Orphism, which is similar to abstract art, abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on Orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone.
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Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard (born September 23, 1934 in New Haven, CT), also known as Darby Bannard, is an American abstract painter.
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William Ronald
William Ronald, R.C.A. (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998) (born William Ronald Smith, was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art group Painters Eleven in 1954.
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Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn (born October 4, 1927) is a German-born American painter.
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Wolfgang Paalen
Wolfgang Paalen (July 7, 1905 in Vienna – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter and theorist.
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Amsterdam
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Athens, Ohio
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Auburn, Alabama
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Barcelona
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Bavaria
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Brandeis University
Brandeis University () is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2010, it was ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as the number 34 national university in the United States. Forbes listed Brandeis University as number 57 among all national universities and liberal arts colleges combined in 2010.
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Buenos Aires
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo () is the second most populous city in the state of New York, behind New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area (which is the largest in Western New York and the larger Upstate New York). Downtown Buffalo is located 17 miles (27 km) south of Niagara Falls (a site drawing millions of tourists each year) and 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Toronto, Ontario (Canada's largest city). The city also lies adjacent to the rapidly growing Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, which has a population of more than 8 million. Buffalo itself has a population of 270,919 (July 1, 2009 Estimate), and the Buffalo–Niagara–Cattaraugus Combined Statistical Area is home to 1,203,997 residents. If the neighboring Regional Municipality of Niagara in Canada is included, the population of the Greater Buffalo-Niagara Region is 1,631,418 residents. Additionally, Buffalo-Niagara is considered to be a part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, which contains an estimated 54 million people.
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Caracas
Caracas (), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraqueños. It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley's temperatures are springlike. Terrain suitable for building lies between above sea level. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2200 m (7400 ft) high mountain range, Cerro Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains.
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Germany
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Goucher College
Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre (1.2 km²) campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary programs and about 900 students studying in graduate subjects. It was one of the first colleges to embrace internships and allow its students to take a more individualized approach. In 2004, Newsweek called Goucher the college with the happiest students.
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Greensboro
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Hamburg
Hamburg (; , local pronunciation Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg ) is the second-largest city in Germany and the eighth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam), and the eighth largest in the world.
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Manhattan
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Massachusetts
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Museum of Modern Art
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New Orleans
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Ohio University
Ohio University (referred to as OHIO or abbreviated as OU) is a public university located in Athens, Ohio, situated on an 1,800 acre campus. Founded in 1804, it is the oldest university in the Northwest Territory, and ninth oldest public university in the United States.
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Oswego, New York
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Portland Art Museum
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Portland, Maine
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Provincetown
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Richmond, Virginia
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Rose Art Museum
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Seattle Art Museum
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Tate
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Turin, Italy
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University of Miami
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Hans Hofmann, Circa 1950
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- Published: 16 Jan 2009
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"Hans Hofmann, Circa 1950" is on display at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. www.metrowestdailynews.com
HANS HOFMANN
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Paintings of Hans Hofmann Music by Vaughan Williams
Hans Hofmann' s Push-Pull and his influence to our mordern creation
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Used Han Hofman's Push-Pull technique as fun to create than seriouse art project. Incouraging viewers to get inspired by master painter's defined,'Who am I,' knowing self-discovering as an important matter in creation. More of NoriVision: norivision.blip.tv www.norivision.blogspot.com www.norivision.com contact nori@norivision.com Any contribution accepted improving public TV art class: PO Box#223, NYC 10013
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Roger Sessions, Rhapsody for Orchestra, Hans Hofmann
Roger Sessions (1896- 1985), Rhapsody for Orchestra (1970), Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Christian Badea, conductor. Works by Hans Hofmann (1880- 1966).
Book trailer for Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann, by Tina Dickey
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Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann by Tina Dickey, released on February 20, 2011 by Trillistar Books, is now available through trillistar.com, Amazon.com, and Baker & Taylor. Trailer by Peter Segnitz. Trailer Copyright 2011 Trillistar Books, Music copyright 2011 Peter Segnitz. All footage of Hofmann copyright 1999 Sam Feinstein, www.samfeinstein.com, used courtesy Patricia Stark Feinstein. See www.colorcreateslight.com for full image credits. The ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York and Provincetown lured talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time. From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, a discussion essential to the contemporary dialogue in the visual arts.
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HANS HOFMANN @ PHILBROOK
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HANS HOFMANN: CIRCE 1950 FEB. 21-MAY 9, 2010 PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART Hans Hofmann created an extraordinary body of work for architect Josep Serts 1950 Peruvian city plan called the Chimbote Project. The nine painting studies Hofmann produced for a series of murals form a concise and inspired example of the depth of Hofmanns strengths as an abstract painter and modernist visionary and form the core of this exhibition, along with other major works from this important year in Hofmanns career.
Hans Hofmann inspired painting The Zen Temple
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Hans Hofmann inspired this painting with the solid colors
Autumn Gold by Hans Hofmann, 1957
Autumn Gold by Hans Hofmann, 1957. He created it at age 77. (at the National Gallery of Art)
Hans Hofmann and New Order-The Perfect Kiss
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Hans Hofmann and New Order-The Perfect Kiss
Hans Hofmann - Österreichs letzter Kunstpfeifer
www.kunstpfeifer.at Hofmann Hans, - ein 46-er Baujahr, - befasste sich schon sehr früh in der Kindheit mit Musik und „pfiff" auf alles was ihm zwischen die Zähne kam. Das Rüstzeug für die Musik bekam er im Konservatorium Graz, beim Erlernen des Violinspiels ,später dann in der damaligen Lehrerbildungsanstalt, mit. In den sechziger Jahren, der „Beatlezeit", war die Gitarre in. Der Griff zu diesem Instrument war für den gelernten Hauptschullehrer - und Schilehrer Hans, der Richtige. Da konnte er nicht nur seinen Schülern, sondern auch einem breiten, von seiner seltenen Kunst begeisterten Publikum Freude bereiten...
Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist || Trailer
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Narrated by Robert De Niro, Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher Artist is both an explanation of modern art and the story of a man who influenced thousands, some of whom are today's leading artists.
SAM FEINSTEIN: A Retrospective at Cape Cod Museum of Art
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May 31 - July 27 Curated by Patricia Stark Feinstein This exhibition will reveal the seventy-year trajectory of Sam Feinstein's development from realism through expressionism, cubist expressionism, Hofmann-influenced abstraction to Feinstein's own unique language of color—vibrating and luminous — in his monumental, mature abstract paintings. Born in Russia and raised in Philadelphia, Feinstein taught and supervised classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and filmed the museum's first art documentary. He later moved to New York and studied with Hans Hofmann, whom he filmed in 1950 to create his documentary, Hans Hofmann. Feinstein taught at Pratt Institute, wrote for Art Digest magazine and exhibited his paintings in New York, Philadelphia and Provincetown until he withdrew from the exhibition world in 1960 to dedicate himself to refining his principles and teaching for the remainder of his life. Feinstein spent his summers on Cape Cod, during the 1950s in Provincetown, and in 1960 moved to Whig Street in Dennis where he painted and taught for the next 42 years. Curator Patricia Stark Feinstein, a painter, teacher, curator, lecturer and former faculty member at Riverdale Country School in New York City, will expand upon the art and philosophy of her husband in related events during the show. She studied with Sam Feinstein and taught with him for eighteen years. She has written a book on her husband's work that will be released by the award-winning Fields Publishing in <b>...</b>
Albert Kotin Abstract Expressionism 1950s-New York School 1950s action painting
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Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era. Albert Kotin like many of the early abstract expressionist in the 1930s took part in the Federal Art Project, WPA. He joined the arm services during world WarII. Returning to the US he took advantage of the GI bill and studied with Hans Hofmann. Later he joined the artist club in New York and was included in the famous 9th St. Show in 1951. Later on Albert Kotin was among the 24 artists out of the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. Albert Kotin isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922
Albert Kotin Abstract Expressionism 1950s-9th Street Art Exhibition
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Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era. Albert Kotin like many of the early abstract expressionist in the 1930s took part in the Federal Art Project, WPA. He joined the arm services during World WarII. Returning to the US he took advantage of the GI bill and studied with Hans Hofmann. Later he joined the artist club in New York. Later on Albert Kotin was among the 24 artists out of the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. Albert Kotin isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922
Paul Resika at LORI BOOKSTEIN FINE ART
James Kalm is drifting up the West Side in late spring and decides to park his bike and take in an exhibition of paintings by the New York legend, Paul Resika. As one of the last surviving members of the New York School, Resika has always maintained a connection with realism and land or seascapes. After two years of study with Hans Hofmann, he ventured to Europe, studying in Italy, and returned to the city in the middle of the tumultuous 50s. These land/seascapes are deceptively simple pushing their depictions of nature to near abstraction, and bear witness to the masterly use of the painting medium, and a refined palette that pays homage to forbearers like Matisse, Duffy and Marin.
Albert Kotin-Abstract Expressionism 1950s-Artist of the 9th St. Show
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This video gives the history of abstract expressionism through the documentation of the art of Albert Kotin. He belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era. Albert Kotin like many of the early abstract expressionists in the 1930s took part in the Federal Art Project, WPA. He joined the armed services during World WarII. Returning to the US he took advantage of the GI bill and studied with Hans Hofmann. Later he joined the artist club in New York. Later on Albert Kotin was among the 24 artists out of the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. Albert Kotin isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922
Nicolas Carone-Abstract Expressionism-Artist of the 9th St. Show
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Nicolas Carone was a pioneer abstract expressionist artist. He participated in the 9th Street Art Exhibition and in all of the following five Stable Gallery New York Artist Annuals. He was represented in The Vennice Biennale in 1957 and in the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, 1958 Nicolas Carone isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922 .
Albert Kotin American Abstract Expressionist 1950s
Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era.Artists including James D. Brooks, Nicolas Carone, Giorgio Cavallon, Willem & Elaine De Kooning, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Perle Fine, Michael Goldberg, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Earl Kerkam, Franz Kline, Albert Kotin, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, James Rosati, Louis Schanker, David Smith, and Esteban Vicente were the 24 artists from the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves. Alexander Calder wrote in 1968: As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art. Albert Kotin isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative <b>...</b>
Perle Fine Abstract Expressionism-1950s New York action painter
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Perle Fine belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leadings art movement of the postwar era. Perle Fine isincluded in each of the following books with two full-page color reproductions of his artwork, statement and biography: www.amazon.com New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists ISBN: 0967799406 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414 American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922
"Florettfechter", Hans Hofmann, Linolschnitt, 1924, VIENNESE KINETICISM
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VIENNESE KINETICISM ANIMATION OF: "Florettfechter", Hans Hofmann, Linolschnitt, 1924
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Mark di Suvero, Aurora, 1992-1993. However, many painters, such as Fuller Potter, Jane Frank (a pupil of Hans Hofmann), and Elaine Hamilton continued to work in the abstract expressionist style for many years
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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St. Wolfgangskirche
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Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Mrs. Thomas Lincoln Manson Jr (Mary Groot) 1890, by John Singer Sargent. Oil on canvas (56.06" x 44.25")
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Hans Hofmann
| Bgcolour | Silver |
|---|---|
| Name | Hans Hofmann |
| Caption | 'The Gate', 1959-1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
| Birthdate | March 21, 1880 |
| Birthplace | Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Deathdate | February 17, 1966 |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Abstract Expressionism |
| Influenced by | Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay |
| Influenced | Lee Krasner, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers |
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.
Biography
At age six he moved to Munich. It was here that his father took up a job with the government. Starting at a young age, he gravitated towards science and mathematics. At age sixteen, he started work with the Bavarian government as assistant to the director of Public Works. Through this, Hofmann was further able to develop his knowledge of mathematics. He went on to develop and patent devices such as the electromagnetic comptometer, a radar device for ships at sea, a sensitized light bulb, and a portable freezer unit for military use. Even with such great abilities in science and mathematics, Hofmann started to take great interest in creative studies, starting educational art training after the death of his father.
Paintings
According to the Hofmann biography at the Tate Gallery website, Hofmann's work is distinguished by "a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships."The Guggenheim Collection's information on Hofmann states that his "completely abstract works date from the 1940s". Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Teaching and writing
Hofmann was renowned not only as an artist but as a teacher of art, both in his native Germany and later in the U.S. In Munich he founded an art school, where Louise Nevelson, Wolfgang Paalen, Worth Rider and Alfred Jensen, were among his students. He closed this school in 1932, the year he immigrated to the U.S.In America, he initially taught a summer session at the University of California, Berkeley in 1930, after which he returned to Munich. In 1931 he taught another summer session at the University of California, Berkeley and a semester at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before again returning to Germany. After Hofmann relocated to New York City he began teaching in 1933 at the Art Students League of New York. Leaving the League in the mid 1930s Hofmann opened his own schools in New York and later in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Many famous or notable artists, especially some who could generally be classified as abstract expressionists, studied with Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. These distinguished alumni included: Lee Krasner, Israel Levitan, Helen Frankenthaler, Gerome Kamrowski, Michael Loew, Joseph Plaskett, Fritz Bultman, William Ronald, Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg, Ray Eames, Larry Rivers, Jane Frank, Mary Frank, Nell Blaine, Robert de Niro, Sr., Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Wolf Kahn, Marisol Escobar, Paul Resika, Nicholas Krushenick, Burgoyne Diller, Mercedes Matter, James Gahagan, Erle Loran, Paul Georges, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Judith Godwin, Lynne Mapp Drexler, Roland Petersen and Donald Jarvis.
In 1958, Hofmann closed his schools in order to devote himself exclusively to his own creative work. Hofmann is a painter and theorist of particular appeal to other artists. American painter Walter Darby Bannard and British artist John Hoyland both have been involved in curating retrospectives of Hofmann's work.
Also prominent as a writer on modern art, Hofmann authored an influential book (sometimes referred to and anthologized as an "essay"), Search for the Real, in which he discussed his push/pull spatial theories, his reverence for nature as a source for art, his conviction that art has spiritual value, and his philosophy of art in general. Hofmann is especially noteworthy as a theorist of the medium who argued that "each medium of expression has its own order of being," "color is a plastic means of creating intervals," and "any line placed on the canvas is already the fifth."
Exhibitions
Hans Hofmann's recognition has increased in the early sixties. In 1963, The Museum of Modern Art gave a full-scale retrospective, organized by William Seitz. The retrospective exhibition circulated various venues through 1965: The Museum of Modern Art, "Hans Hofmann," 11 September-28 November. Catalogue text by William Seitz with excerpts from the artist's writings (64 pages, biography and bibliography). Traveled to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, 6 January-2 February 1964), Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (New Orleans, 21 February-15 March 1964), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York, 30 March-26 April), University of California at Berkeley (11 May-7 June), Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C., 21 June-21 July), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (10–26 September), Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas, 29 November-13 December), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 29 January-15 March 1965), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna (Turin, Italy, 31 March-30 April), Werttembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, 13 May-13 June), Kunstverein in Hamburg (Amerika Haus) (2 July-31 July), Stadtisches Kunsthaus (Bielefeld, 12 September-10 October 1965).and followed a circulating exhibition also organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY:
:"Hans Hofmann and his students 1963-1964." 58 works were represented by 51 artists. 49 paintings, 6 sculptures, 1 “environment.”
Organized by William Seitz for the Museum of Modern Art 6–27 May, and circulated from 1963 to 1965 to Michigan State University (East Lansing, 1–22 July), Akron Art Institute (Ohio, 3–28 September), Indiana University Museum of Art (Bloomington, 11 October-2 November), Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama, 18 November-9 December), Hunter Gallery of Art (Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2–23 January 1964), The Carillon, Richmond Artist's Association (Richmond, Virginia, 9 February-1 March 1964), Elliott Hall, University of North Carolina (Greensboro, 17 March-7 April), Ohio University (Athens, Ohio 21 April-12 May), University of South Florida (Tampa, 1–22 June), Portland Art Museum (Portland, Maine, 18 September-13 October), State University College (Oswego, New York, 26 October-16 November), Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 5–26 January 1965), Goucher College (Towson, Maryland, 8 February-1 March), Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, now Lowe Art Museum, 17 March-7 April).
Hans Hofmann and his students: MoMA exhibition 1963-1964
Collections
Hans Hofmann's works are in the permanent collections of many major museums in the United States and throughout the world, including the UC Berkeley Art Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Seattle Art Museum, the Dayton Art Institute, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich), the Museu d'Art Contemporani, (Barcelona), and the Tate Gallery (London). In addition to these collections, he also designed a colorful mural located outside the entrance of the High School of Graphic Communication Arts located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Hofmann Estate
When Hans Hofmann died on February 17, 1966, his widow, Renate Hofmann managed his Estate.After Renate's death in 1992, the New York Daily News published an article titled, "From Caviar to Cat Food," which detailed the "sad and tortuous story" of Hofmann's widow. The article contended that Renate's court appointed guardians "milk[ed] the Estate for more than a decade" and allowed the mentally unstable Renate to live "with her cats and liquor in a garbage-strewn oceanfront home."
Under threat of prosecution, the original executor of the Hofmann Estate, Robert Warshaw, was successful in having the neglectful guardians pay $8.7 million dollars to the Estate for "extraordinary conscious pain and suffering."
Under the will of Renate Hofmann, The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust was formally created with Robert Warshaw at its head. The mission of the Trust is "to promote the study and understanding of Hans Hofmann's extraordinary life and works" and to accomplish these goals "through exhibitions, publications and educational activities and programs focusing on Hans Hofmann" as well as forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hofmann's paintings. The U.S. copyright representative for the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust is the Artists Rights Society.
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