Artista

Hans Hofmann

Nacionalidad
Estadounidense (nacido en Alemania)
Nacimiento/Muerte
1880-1966

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Artwork by Hans Hofmann
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Hofmann was a German-born American painter whose work influenced the Abstract Expressionism movement. He began as a representational artist and later moved into complete abstraction. He is known for his art and for being an influential teacher. He opened an art school in Germany and two art schools in the United States. He developed an artistic approach and theory that he called “push and pull,” which he described as interdependent relationships between form, color, and space.

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Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism. Born and educated near Munich, he was active in the early twentieth-century European avant-garde and brought a deep understanding and synthesis of Symbolism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism when he emigrated to the United States in 1932. Hofmann's painting is characterized by its rigorous concern with pictorial structure and unity, spatial illusionism, and use of bold color for expressive means. The influential critic Clement Greenberg considered Hofmann's first New York solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century in 1944 (along with Jackson Pollock’s in late 1943) as a breakthrough in painterly versus geometric abstraction that heralded abstract expressionism. In the decade that followed, Hofmann's recognition grew through numerous exhibitions,…