antibes - Hans Hartung
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Consequently, after a bicycle trip through antibes Italy, he moved to Paris. He lived with Anna-Eva Bergmann and established himself in the French towns of Leucate, and then in the Spanish Balearic Islands specifically Minorca successively. antibes Nicholas I of Montenegro To prevent succumbing to provincialism, he decided in 1926 that he would leave his native country.
He was able to antibes flee the country with the help of his friend Christian Zervos. After returning to Paris as a refugee his wife left him, causing him to become depressive. For the time being he could only afford a little shop where he could work at improving his technique. In December 1939, he became a antibes member of the French Foreign Legion.
Studying both in Leipzig and Dresden, he reproduced the paintings of the masters, he then entered the Fine Arts academies of Dresden and Munich. After being released he rejoined the Legion to fight in North Africa, losing a leg in a battle antibes near Belfort.
He spent much time fishing. In 1935 when he attempted to sell paintings while visiting Berlin, the police tried to arrest him.
He was rejected from Nazi Germany on account of being a degenerate , because his painting style was associated with cubism - an art movement incompatible with Nazi Germany s ideals. Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 8 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style.
He studied painters like Corinth and Nolde and also learned the basis of cubism and French painting. His friends tried to help him with his financial difficulties, but his paintings were becoming more abstract and did not sell well.
In 1960 he was awarded the International Grand Prix for painting at the Venice Biennale. His freewheeling abstract paintings set influential precedents for many younger American painters of the sixties, making him an important forerunner of American Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970 s. He died in December 1989 in Antibes, France. . That year he exhibited his works for the first time in Paris.
His last bonds with Germany were broken when his father died in 1932. He was closely followed by the Gestapo and arrested for seven months by the French police.
He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion. Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany into an artistic family. His first exhibition was held in 1931 in Dresden.
