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

Offset lithograph by Hans Hartung (*).
Reproduction of the work “T1971-R30”, created by Hartung in 1971.
Printed on heavyweight vellum paper (220 g).
Published by Arte-Paris.
Legal imprint 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 stored in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private collection.

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

The shipment will also include transportation 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 calligraphic strokes on colored 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 had his first exhibition 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 exert a profound influence on him. González offered him 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 Gallery 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 seriously wounded during the siege of Belfort and lost a leg. After the war he became a French national and in 1947 held an important solo exhibition in Paris.
From the beginning he stayed away from the Bauhaus movement, which he regarded as a mere passing fashion. His paintings, purely abstract, reflect his view of the representation of reality: free and pure expression must transcend reality. The quick brushstroke became a basic feature of his working method.
The 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.