Hans Hartung
1904 (Leipzig) / 1989 (Antibes)
Hartung's spaces are constituted by a movement whose automatic origin presides over the emergence of a writing composed of crosses, bars, initials, skeins, stripes and diagonal scratches. Marks and spots associated or dissociated are sometimes so invasive that they occupy the entire surface of the support: broken lines, instantaneous, stripes, compact mass often circular or oval, endless background, indistinct and moving agree to create the light that envelops and radiates at the same time, poetically bathing all the elements of the painting in a clarity where the blacks are essential to the tone! About the meditative aspect of his works, he declares: "I do not exclude the fact of seeing, on the contrary, but the sight is not our only mode of knowledge. We have many other ways of knowing, the painter wants to account for everything that constitutes the experience of life, our surroundings, ourselves, everything that contributes to form our knowledge of the world, all our emotions. He explains however that his painting is not a direct psychic projection and declares: "A cry, not example, it is not art. A cry, it is still nothing... "
Hartung's spaces are constituted by a movement whose automatic origin presides over the emergence of a writing composed of crosses, bars, initials, skeins, stripes and diagonal scratches. Marks and spots associated or dissociated are sometimes so invasive that they occupy the entire surface of the support: broken lines, instantaneous, stripes, compact mass often circular or oval, endless background, indistinct and moving agree to create the light that envelops and radiates at the same time, poetically bathing all the elements of the painting in a clarity where the blacks are essential to the tone! About the meditative aspect of his works, he declares: "I do not exclude the fact of seeing, on the contrary, but the sight is not our only mode of knowledge. We have many other ways of knowing, the painter wants to account for everything that constitutes the experience of life, our surroundings, ourselves, everything that contributes to form our knowledge of the world, all our emotions. He explains however that his painting is not a direct psychic projection and declares: "A cry, not example, it is not art. A cry, it is still nothing... "
Artist's exhibitions
Hans Hartung, La fabrique du geste
11/10/2019 - 01/03/2020
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
11/10/2019 - 01/03/2020
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Hartung et les peintres lyriques
10/12/2016 - 17/04/2017
(Landerneau) Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc
10/12/2016 - 17/04/2017
(Landerneau) Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc
Beau geste. Hans Hartung, peintre et légionnaire.
16/04/2016 - 28/08/2016
(Aubagne) Musée de la Légion étrangère
16/04/2016 - 28/08/2016
(Aubagne) Musée de la Légion étrangère
Fondation Maeght. De Giacometti à Tàpies, 50 ans de collection
22/06/2014 - 02/11/2014
(Bignan) Domaine de Kerguéhennec
22/06/2014 - 02/11/2014
(Bignan) Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Dialogue Kirili Hartung
14/10/2012 - 06/01/2013
(Antibes) Fondation Hartung Bergman
14/10/2012 - 06/01/2013
(Antibes) Fondation Hartung Bergman
Arcadia in Celle – Collection Gori
31/03/2012 - 10/06/2012
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
31/03/2012 - 10/06/2012
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
Abstraction 50, l’explosion des libertés
09/12/2011 - 19/03/2012
(Rueil-Malmaison) Atelier Grognard
09/12/2011 - 19/03/2012
(Rueil-Malmaison) Atelier Grognard
Hans Hartung - Estampes
22/10/2011 - 29/01/2012
(Vannes) La Cohue – Musée des Beaux-Arts
22/10/2011 - 29/01/2012
(Vannes) La Cohue – Musée des Beaux-Arts
Hans Hartung - Estampes
12/10/2010 - 16/01/2011
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
12/10/2010 - 16/01/2011
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
Deadline
16/10/2009 - 10/01/2010
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
16/10/2009 - 10/01/2010
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
artist_books
Hans Hartung : les Aléas d’une réception
Annie Claustres Éditions Les Presses du réel De Hans Hartung (1904-1989), on savait jusqu'alors qu'il était l'un des peintres emblématiques de la deuxième génération de l'abstraction. Représentant de l'expressionnisme gestuel, il avait eu une reconnaissance paradoxale, souvent cité comme un artiste incontournable de l'après-guerre mais oublié quant aux études approfondies. Il man ...