Hans Hartung
Hans Heinrich Ernst Hartung ( born September 21, 1904 in Leipzig, † December 8, 1989 in Antibes, France ) was a German - French painter and graphic artist.
Life
Hartung visited in 1915 the grammar school in Dresden, where he acquired a high school. During his school years, he turned to abstract painting and produced abstract images. In 1924 he began studying philosophy and art history at the University of Leipzig. Through a formative encounter with the works of Wassily Kandinsky, he moved in 1925 then to study painting at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1928 he continued his studies with the painter Max Doerner in Munich.
In 1929 Hartung married the Norwegian painter Anna - Eva Bergman ( 1909-1987 ). The marriage was divorced pressure on his mother in Oslo ( in Hartung's absence) relatively quickly. Hartung was then stateless person without a passport and could not leave France to speak out with Anna-Eva.
From 1932 to 1934 Hartung lived on the island of Menorca and from 1935 in Paris. In 1939, he joined the Foreign Legion. In the summer of 1940 Hartung lived with the sculptor Julio González Abstract, whose daughter he had married Roberta. In 1944, he was severely wounded and lost a leg in 1946 he received French citizenship and was inducted into the Legion of Honor.
In 1952, Hartung and Anna- Eva Bergman met at a retrospective of his father ( Julio González ) and married again in 1957 for a second time. They remained together until her death this time.
After the war and after several years of Malpause he became one of the most important representatives of the Informal. Hans Hartung took part in documenta 1 (1955), Documenta II (1959) and Documenta III (1964 ) in Kassel. In 1957 he was awarded the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, 1960, he was awarded the prize at the Venice Biennale. 1982 Hartung Hall was inaugurated in the state Galerie Moderne Kunst in Munich. 1984 Hartung room in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt has been established.
Hartung came to a non-representational style with graphically perceived black line games before clear reasons, often to Chinese ink painting reminiscent.