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Hans Hofmann: Fury - Painting After the War (Paperback)
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Hans Hofmann: Fury - Painting After the War (Paperback)
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Accompanying an exhibition at BASTIAN, London, this striking
publication presents works by the German-born American artist Hans
Hofmann (1880-1966), produced at the end of the Second World War
and immediately afterwards. Hofmann's angular abstractions (such as
Fury No. 1) personify the insecurities of the period, but this was
also the moment that he moved towards the soft ambiguous forms and
gesture that would become the hallmark of the Abstract
Expressionist movement. Renowned as both an artist and teacher,
Hofmann established his first art school in Munich in 1915. Built
on the contemporary ideas regarding colour and form of Cezanne, the
Cubists and Kandinsky, his work laid the foundations for his
reputation as a forward-thinking artist. After relocating to the
United States in 1932, he then opened schools in both New York and
Provincetown, immersing himself within America's growing avantgarde
art scene. His teaching had a significant influence on post-War
American artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and
Joan Mitchell - artists who would later lead the Abstract
Expressionism movement. The works presented here span from 1942 to
1946. Whilst demonstrating Hofmann's development towards
abstraction, the paintings still reveal an identifiably
representational quality which nod to his figurative beginnings;
linear paintings such as The Virgin (1946) particularly emphasise
this artistic trajectory. Primarily known for his expressive use of
bold, often primary colours, the palette used in these paintings
consists predominantly of vivid, bright colours and contrasting
dark tones, epitomizing the conflicted post-War feeling. Hofmann's
work during the 1940s also saw him garner the support of several
key figures in the artistic scene, including the renowned
gallerists and dealers Peggy Guggenheim, Betty Parsons, and Samuel
M. Kootz. A particularly important moment in his career - aged 64
at the time - was his first solo exhibition in New York in 1944 at
Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of This Century, considered 'a
breakthrough in painterly versus geometric abstraction that
heralded abstract expressionism' by the influential art critic
Clement Greenberg.
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