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

Offset lithography by Hans Hartung (*).
Reproduction of the work “T1971-R30”, made by Hartung in 1971.
Printed on high-grade Vellum paper (220g).
Edited 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 artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.

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 graphic 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 Dresden Gymnasium and philosophy and art history at the university and at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Later he enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
During the summer of 1926 he rode his bicycle through France, Italy and Spain. In 1931 he exhibited for the first time in Dresden. In 1937, at a group exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, 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 embark on 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 injured 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 start he remained apart from the Bauhaus movement, which he considered merely a passing fashion. His paintings, purely abstract, reflect his view on the representation of reality: free and pure expression must transcend reality. A quick brushstroke became a basic feature of his working method.
Creativity in the process, speed in the creative act, was, in his own words, a spiritual necessity. He received several prizes, including the Guggenheim Prize in 1956 and, in 1960, the Grand International Prize of the Venice Biennale."