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

Hans Hartung Offset Lithography (*).
Reproduction of the work “T1971-R30,” made by Hartung in 1971.
Produced on high-weight vellum paper (220 g).
Published by Arte-Paris.
Legal print 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 offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be tracked and certified.

The shipment 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 a major German-born French painter, known for his abstract works with black calligraphic strokes on color backgrounds.
He was born in Leipzig into a family of physicists. His grandfather was also a self-taught painter and composer. Between 1915 and 1926 he studied classical languages at the 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 rode a bicycle through France, Italy, and Spain. In 1931 he first exhibited in Dresden. In 1937, at a group exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris (France), he met the great Spanish sculptor Julio González, who would have a profound 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 he exhibited in several galleries. In 1938 he participated in an anti-Nazi exhibition at the New Burlington Gallery in London (Great Britain).
In 1939, he was imprisoned in Spain and subsequently enlisted in the Foreign Legion in North Africa. In 1944 he was seriously wounded during the Belfort siege and lost a leg. After the war he became a French national and in 1947 held a major solo exhibition in Paris.
From the outset he stayed away from the Bauhaus movement, which he regarded as a mere passing fashion. His paintings, purely abstract, reflected his view on the representation of reality: free and pure expression must transcend reality. A fast brushstroke became a basic feature of his working method.
Speed in the creative process was, in his own words, a spiritual necessity. He received several awards, including the Guggenheim Prize in 1956 and in 1960 the Grand International Prize of the Venice Biennale.