Hans Hartung

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Hans Hartung was a German-French abstract painter known for his gestural, calligraphic style and as a leading figure in European postwar abstraction.

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instanceOf German-French artist
abstract painter
painter
person
awardReceived Grand Prix International de Peinture
Kandinsky Prize
birthCountry German Empire
birthDate 1904-09-21
birthPlace Leipzig
deathCountry France
deathDate 1989-12-07
deathPlace Antibes
educatedAt Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
familyName Hartung
genre abstract painting
givenName Hans
hasWorkInCollection Centre Pompidou
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Tate Modern
influenced European abstract painters after World War II
influencedBy German Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky
knownFor European postwar abstraction
dynamic brushwork
scratched and sprayed surfaces
lost part of his right leg in World War II
militaryConflict World War II
movement Art informel
linked to: Art Informel

Lyrical abstraction
Tachisme
linked to: Art Informel

abstract art
name Hans Hartung
nationality French
German
occupation painter
printmaker
participatedIn documenta II
linked to: Documenta (Kassel)

documenta III
linked to: Documenta (Kassel)

documenta IV
linked to: Documenta (Kassel)
residence Antibes
Paris
servedIn French Foreign Legion
spouse Anna-Eva Bergman
style calligraphic abstraction
gestural abstraction

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