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

Offset lithography by Hans Hartung (*).
Reproduction of the work “T1971-R30”, created by Hartung in 1971.
Made on high-quality Vellum paper (220g).
Published by Arte-Paris.
Legally authorized print by the Hartung-Bergman Foundation
Signed on 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 packaged in reinforced cardboard. Shipping 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 an important German painter naturalized French, known for his abstract works with black calligraphic strokes on colorful backgrounds.
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 traveled by bicycle through France, Italy and Spain. In 1931 he first exhibited 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 exert a profound influence on him. González provided all kinds of help and encouraged him to undertake 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 gravely wounded during the siege of Belfort and lost a leg. After the war he became French and in 1947 held a major solo exhibition in Paris.
From the beginning he stayed away from the Bauhaus movement, which he considered merely a passing fashion. His paintings, purely abstract, reflect his view of the depiction of reality: free and pure expression must transcend reality. The rapid brushstroke was a fundamental feature of his working method.
Speed in the creative process was, in his own words, a spiritual necessity. He received several prizes, among which the Guggenheim Prize in 1956 and in 1960 the Grand International Prize of the Venice Biennale.