David Hare (artist)

David Hare, ( born March 10, 1917 in New York; † December 21, 1992 in Jackson, Wyoming) was an American painter and sculptor of the Surrealism and the photographer. Hare was also a representative of the American art movement of Abstract Expressionism.

Life and work

David Hare was the son of Meredith Hare, a lawyer, his mother was Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, as an art collector, she supported the 1913 Armory Show.

From 1936 to 1937 Hare studied biology and chemistry at Bard College in Annandale -on-Hudson, New York. After training, he moved to Roxbury, Connecticut and began working with color photographs. In Roxbury he met artists such as Alexander Calder and his neighbors Arshile Gorky and Yves Tanguy, who was married to Hare's cousin Kay Sage. In 1940 he made ​​for Clark Wissler of the American Museum of Natural History portraits of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico in the southwestern United States. In 1940 he opened a studio in New York for photography; In the same year the Julien Levy Gallery honored him with a solo exhibition.

In 1941, met David Hare on André Breton, who had emigrated from France to New York. Breton planned with the help of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, the publication of a surrealist magazine. David Hare became editor of VVV 1942-1944 at this time., He began teaching himself to the work of surrealist sculptures. The second wife of André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, broke up in 1942 after an affair with Hare by her husband; the wedding with David Hare took place in 1946.

From 1943 to 1947, the gallery owner and art collector Peggy Guggenheim exhibited alongside works Hares in her gallery Art of This Century works by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still and others.

1948 Hare was with Baziotes, Motherwell and Rothko founding member of "The Subjects of the Artist School " in New York. This year, he traveled to Paris and met Balthus, Victor Brauner, Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. In 1953 he returned to New York, but spent again the next two summers in Paris.

In the late 1950s, Hare turned to painting, his mythological motifs corresponded to the direction of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, which he maintained even later than other art forms had developed. David Hare taught, among others, at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, in 1969 made ​​him an honorary doctorate, and at the New York Studio School.

Hare's first three marriages ended in divorce. In 1991 he married his fourth marriage Therry Frey. A little later he died of an aneurysm.

David Hare's works are exhibited in many prestigious museums.

Literature (selection )

Catalogs with David Hare's participation

• Reuniting an Era abstract expression ists of the 1950s, Exhibition: Nov. 12, 2004 - January 25, 2005, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
• Marika Herskovic: American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. An Illustrated Survey. New York School Press, 2003, ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
• The Third Dimension Sculpture of the New York School, by Lisa Phillips, Exhibition circ. December 6, 1984 - March 3, 1985 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ISBN 0-87427-002-2

Secondary literature

• The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1918-1989. Incorporating the serial exhibitions of The Whitney Studio Club, 1918-1928; The Whitney Studio Club Galleries, 1928-1930; The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1932-1989, ed by Peter Falk, Sound View Press 1991, ISBN 0-932087-12-4
• New York Cultural Capital of the World, 1940-1965 ed Leonard Wallock, Rizzoli, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-8478-0990-0
• American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970 by Wayne Andersen, New York Graphic Society Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company Publishers, 1975, ISBN 0-316-03681-1