Hans Hartung - T1971-R30 - Offset lithography - Licensed print 2008 - COA

Offset Lithography by Hans Hartung (*)
Reproduction of the work “T1971-R30,” created by Hartung in 1971.
Made on high‑gsm vellum paper (220 g).
Edited by Arte-Paris.
Legal printing authorized by the Hartung-Bergman Foundation
Signed on the plate by the artist.

Specifications:

Dimensions: 65 x 85 cm
Year: 2008
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore it is offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipping will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Hans Hartung is an important German-born French painter, known for his abstract works with black caligraphic strokes on a color background.
He was born in Leipzig within a family of physicists. His grandfather was also a self-taught painter and composer. Between 1915 and 1926 he studied classical languages at Dresden Gymnasium and philosophy and art history at the university and at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Later he entered the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
During the summer of 1926 he travelled by bike through France, Italy and Spain. In 1931 he exhibited for the first time in Dresden. In 1937, at a joint exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (France), he met the great Spanish sculptor Julio González, who would exert a deep influence on him. González provided him with all kinds of help and encouraged him to pursue his own artistic path.
During the pre-war period Hartung settled in Paris to avoid the Nazi regime, and exhibited in several galleries. In 1938 he participated in an anti-Nazi exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London (Great Britain).
In 1939, he was imprisoned in Spain and later enlisted in the Foreign Legion in North Africa. In 1944 he was severely wounded during the Belfort siege and lost a leg. After the war he became French and in 1947 held an important solo show in Paris.
From the beginning he remained distant from the Bauhaus movement, which he regarded as a mere passing fashion. His paintings, purely abstract, reflect his view on the representation of reality: free and pure expression must transcend reality. The swift brushwork was a fundamental feature of his working method.
Speed in the creative process was, in his own words, a spiritual necessity. He received several awards, among which the Guggenheim Prize in 1956 and in 1960 the Grand International Prize of the Venice Biennale.