Artist: Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966)
Nationality: German
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Hans Hofmann was born in Weissenburg, Germany and studied in his home country at Munich. He came across the influence of the Impressionists, the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris in the early 1900’s. He began his own school in Munich in 1915, then moved his school to New York in 1931, where he taught his technique of improvisation. Hofmann’s work is insistent upon color, texture, and form, his experimentation with these aspects helping to develop Abstract Expressionism in America.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Hans Hofmann - The Bat 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Landscape 1940 oil on plywood Currier Museum of Art American
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Hans Hofmann - Lent 1960 acrylic on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Hans Hofmann - The Garden 1956 Oil on plywood University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Castle 1965 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Ecstasy 1947 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Goliath 1960 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Gloriamundi 1963 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Equinox 1958 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Polyhymnia 1963 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Le Gilotin 1953 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Prey 1956 Oil on composition b University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Bouquet 1959 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - the Third Hand 1947 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Agrigento 1961 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Untitled 1946 gouache on 2-ply boa Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Hans Hofmann - The Clash 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Lark 1960 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Vanquished 1959 Oil and enamel on ca University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Effervescence 1944 Oil, india ink, case University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Self Portrait 1942 Oil on gessoed plywo University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Self Portrait 1942 Oil on gessoed plywo University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Fantasia 1943 Oil, duco, and casei University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Idolatress I 1944 Oil and aqueous medi University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Wind 1937-1947 Oil, duco, gouache, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Indian Summer 1959 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Japanese Girl 1935 Casein and oil on pl University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Combinable Wall, I and II 1961 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Imperium in Imperio 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - IN the Wake of the Hurricane 1960 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Above Deep Waters 1959 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Bald Eagle 1960 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Lucidus Ordo 1962 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Maiden Dance 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Ruby Gold 1959 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Hans Hofmann - Tormented Bull 1961 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - And Thunderclouds Pass 1961 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Struwel Peter 1965 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Song of Philomel 1963 Oil on panel University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Sanctum Sanctorum 1962 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Summer Bliss 1960 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Scintillating Space 1954 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Magnum Opus 1962 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Silent Night 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Rope-Swinger 1962 Oil and enamel on ca University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Nocturnal Splendor 1963 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Morning Mist 1958 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Heraldic Call 1963 Oil and duco on Canv University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - The Golden Wall 1961 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Hans Hofmann - Undulating Expanse 1955 oil on canvas Ackland Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Autumn Gold 1957 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Hans Hofmann - Untitled (Interior Composition) 1935 Oil and casein on pl University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - In the Vastness of Sorrowful Thoughts 1963 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - To J.F.K.: A Thousand Roots Did Die With Thee 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Smaragd red and permiating yellow 1959 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Hans Hofmann - Yellow Table on Yellow Background 1936 gouache, casein, and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Hans Hofmann - Table with Teakettle, Green Vase and Red Flowers 1936 Oil on plywood University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Anonymous Portrait of Casimir Hofmann photograph circa 1902
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Ludwig Von Hofmann Three Graces Drypoint 1887
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Hans Hofmann - And out of the Caves the Night Threw a Handful of Pale Tumbling Pigeons in the Light 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hans Hofmann at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kept out of the army during World War I because of a lung ailment, Hofmann opened an art school in Munich in 1915. For the next 53 years, Hofmann supported himself primarily through his teaching. ...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition
When the Matter retrospective was recently shown at Baruch College in Manhattan, the Wall Street Journal declared it "one of the best New York painting exhibitions" and said it gives us "the monumental achievement of a monumental, but sadly overlo...
John Mackie Gallery: A New Venue For John Nolan's Paintings
John has been working on a series of paintings paying homage to the great masters, yet again pushing the boundaries of colour and composition. Taking his unique vision to another level of artistic exploration, John combines his vibrant stylised ap...
Pharmaka: LA Ethos: On Location at Pharmaka
The participating artists include: Fumiko Amano, Don Bachardy, Jeff Britton, Randall Cabe, Christopher Cousins, Stanley Dorfman, Tim Forcum, GERMS, Shane Guffogg, Laura Hipke, Doro Hofmann, Patricia Howard, Tim Isham, Donald Krieger, Campbell Lair...
Fotomuseum, Winterthur: Remake Berlin: CleggandGuttmann, Astrid Klein, Remy Markowitsch, Boris Mikhailov, Juergen Teller, Frank Thiel, Celine van Balen and Stephen Wilks
What is BerlinNULL One thing is certain: today's Berlin can only be described as a collection of diverse phenomena. The words I am a Berliner, uttered by John F. Kennedy in 1963, are no longer valid; at best, they would have to have been ...
Vincent Pepi: Artist Expands Offering of Limited Edition Prints through absolutearts.com
Upon his return to the United States, the artist studied briefly with Hans Hofmann, painting works parallel with Pollock, DeKooning, Kline, Marcarelli and others. Like so many others, he felt Surrealism's impact, adapting automatic techniques and ...
Housatonic Museum of Art: A Retrospective: Large oils 1985-2003 by Michael Hafftka
Some have seen that work as depicting a deeply disturbing, chaotic world of existential suffering and despair mitigated only by the unflinching compassionate eye of the artist and the beholder. Others have seen it as revealing, amid that very suff...
Community Writers Association: PRODUCERS LEAVE HOLLYWOOD: PROVIDENCE LOOKS DIVINE FOR SPEAKERS AT NEW ENGLAND SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE
This years award winning line-up of featured guests and key-note speakers include: writer D.C. Fontana (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, High Chaparral, Bonanza, The Big Valley), independent producer Steve Fassler (Dunkin Donut...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Exhibition Reveals Lee Krasner’s Crucial Contributions to Modern Art
Organized by Independent Curators International, this revealing exhibition demonstrates Krasner’s lifelong refusal to settle on a single style with which to express her artistic and personal concerns, and examines her position as one of the most...
Kunstverein Langenhagen: The Sky's The Limit: Fiona Banner, Daniela Brahm, Tobias & Raphael Danke, David Hatcher, Andrew McLeod, Peter Robinson, Yvonne Todd
Yvonne Todd's photograph "Quaalude Eyes" offers an acute image of communication and research - a telescope listening into outer space waiting for a signal to decode. Peter Robinson's body of work "Divine Comedy", presented at the New Zealand Pavil...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976
Beginning in the 1940s, Pollock and de Kooning created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international stage. In magazines as diverse as Partisan Review, The Nation, ARTnews and Vogue, Greenberg and Rosenberg wrote inc...
Haus der Kunst: Allan Kaprow. Art as Life
Allan Kaprow became well known in 1959 with his "18 Happenings in 6 Parts." With this event, he opened the Reuben Gallery in New York, which he helped to establish. "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" was performed on the 4th and 6th - 10th of October, on ...

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