Artist:
- Hans Hartung
Artist:
Category:
print
Title:
Composition
Year:
Technique:
etching
Dimension:
56,6 x 76 cm
Plate dimension:
9,5 x 52,5 cm
Edition:
75 examples
Editor:
Notes:
numbered and hand signed
Exhibitions:
Publications:
Available:
NO
Price:
850€
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- Hans Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1904. He studied first to the Akademie der schönen Künste of the same city (1924-1926), then studied to the Fine Art of Munich. His first exhibition was organized in 1931. He left Germany in 1932, travelled in Europe, then settled down in Paris in 1935. He painted then watercolours and abstract canvases. In 1944, Hans Hartung joined the Foreign Legion; he got injured and his right leg was amputated. In 1945, he got the french naturalization. The artist thought that only the “tachisme” could say the despair of the horrors of the war. Hans Hartung got the first price of “la Biennale de Venise” in 1960. At that time, Hartung began to paint acrylic on big formats, alternately struck or scratched by fast touches. He stigmatized hi... > Read more