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HOFMANN Hans, 1880 Weissenberg (Bavaria) - 1966 New York German-born American painter. Grew up in Munich. |
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| 1904-1906 | Studied
at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. |
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| Worked
with Matisse in the Atelier Colarossi. Came to know Delaunay, Braque,
Pascin, Gris and Picasso. |
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| 1910 | First
solo-exhibition at Paul Cassirer's gallery in Berlin. |
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| 1915 | Returned
to Munich and opened his own school of modem art with a strong emphasis
on Cubism. |
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| 1930-31 | Taught
at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley and at the Art Students League
in New York. |
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| 1933 | Settled
in New York. His teaching at his own school in New York from 1934 to
1958 influenced a whole generation of American abstract arrists. |
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| 1949 | Met
Braque, Brancusi and Picasso in Paris. |
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| 1959 | Participated
in documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1960 | Took
part in the Venice Biennale. |
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In the early 40s, Hofmann developed a form of Abstract Expressionism out of the traditions of Cubism and Fauvism, in which dynamic tension is set up through a counterplay of unbroken colour and free gestural elements. |
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