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Hans HartungWW-1949-010745

1949·Oil on canvas·19 5/8 × 25 1/2 in. (49.8 × 64.8 cm)

Gift of Arnold Picker, 1977

Catalogue

Year: 1949
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 5/8 × 25 1/2 in. (49.8 × 64.8 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Hans Hartung

Artist

Hans Hartung

Painting

Known as a painter of the “Ecole de Paris” and a member of the “lyrical abstraction”, Hans Hartung is not simply a post war-painter. In fact, his career began before World War II. The artist was born in 1904 in Germany and was already attracted to abstract expressionism as a child. At 18 he already had his own vibrant pictorial language, as is visible in a series of 60 expressive watercolors.

Antibes, France

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