Hofmann, Hans, 1880–1966, American painter, b. Germany. After earning a considerable reputation as a teacher in Munich, Hofmann moved permanently to the United States in 1930. He opened his own schools of art in New York City and in Provincetown, which were central to the development of abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
..... Click the link for more information. . Hofmann's work, influenced by Kandinsky, expresses his tremendous exuberance in his handling of violent, clashing colors. Representative examples of his art are Germania (Baltimore Mus. of Art) and Elegy (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).
(born March 21, 1880, Weissenberg, Ger.—died Feb. 17, 1966, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born U.S. painter and art teacher. From 1898 he studied art in Munich, and in 1904 he moved to Paris, where he was inspired by the work of Henri Matisse and Robert Delaunay. In 1915 he opened his first school of painting in Munich. He moved to the U.S. in 1930 and taught at New York's Art Students League. In 1933 he opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art, where he would exert strong influence on young abstract painters of the 1930s and '40s, including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. His style evolved into total abstraction, and he pioneered the paint-dripping technique later associated with Pollock. He closed the school in 1958 to devote the rest of his life to his painting. He was one of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century and a significant figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism.
Hofmann, Hans (1880–1966) painter, teacher; born in Weissenberg, Germany. He settled in America (1932) and in the 1950s became well-known as an abstract expressionist, an approach to painting that stressed nonrepresentational form and color as a means of expressing emotional content. He taught at the University of California: Berkeley in 1930–31 and began his own school in New York (1934), influencing such artists as Burgoyne Diller, Louise Nevelson and Helen Frankenthaler. He used many styles, but remained true to his search for what he called "the inner life of things." His distinctive approach is seen in such notable works as Effervescence (1944), and Fantasia in Blue (1954).
..... Click the link for more information. . Hofmann's work, influenced by Kandinsky, expresses his tremendous exuberance in his handling of violent, clashing colors. Representative examples of his art are Germania (Baltimore Mus. of Art) and Elegy (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).
Bibliography
See his writings, ed. by S. Hunter (2d ed. 1964) and by W. C. Seitz (1963, repr. 1972).
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Hans Hofmann, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1960.
(credit: © Arnold Newman)
Hofmann, Hans (1880–1966) painter, teacher; born in Weissenberg, Germany. He settled in America (1932) and in the 1950s became well-known as an abstract expressionist, an approach to painting that stressed nonrepresentational form and color as a means of expressing emotional content. He taught at the University of California: Berkeley in 1930–31 and began his own school in New York (1934), influencing such artists as Burgoyne Diller, Louise Nevelson and Helen Frankenthaler. He used many styles, but remained true to his search for what he called "the inner life of things." His distinctive approach is seen in such notable works as Effervescence (1944), and Fantasia in Blue (1954).
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