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Hans Hofmann
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American/German
, 1880–1966)
Hans Hofmann
Persian Phantasy,
1953
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1880
Born on March 21 in Weissenberg, Germany
1896 - 1898
Studied under Willi Schwarz at Moritz Heymann's Art School, Munich
1903 - 1914
Lived in Paris, France
1904 - 1906
attended evening classes at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
1915 - 1932
Founder-teacher of arts school, Schule für Moderne Kunst, Munich
1915
Opened first art school, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Munich
1923
Married Maria Wolfegg
1930
Taught at the University of California, Berkeley, CA (summer)
1931
Taught at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1932 - 1933
Taught at the Arts Students League, New York, NY
1933
Founded the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, 137 E. 57th Street, New York, NY
Taught at the Thurn School of Art, Cloucester, MA
1936 - 1938
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts at 52 W. 9th Street, New York, NY
1941
Became an American citizen
1958
Stopped teaching
1964
Married Renate Schmidt
1966
Died on February 17 in New York, NY
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Exhibitions
2010
Le Grand Geste, Sammlung Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
1945-1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon
2008 - 2009
Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura Americana, ARCA, Ex-Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy
2008
Hans Hofmann, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA (solo)
"Hans Hoffmann: Poems & Paintings on Paper," Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York City, NY (solo)
2007
Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
"Everything," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Options with Realism," Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Hans Hofmann, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
"Hans Hofmann," Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York City, NY (solo)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Fifty Years of American Art, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, with Otto Hübner as curator for the Abstract Expressionism
2005 - 2006
Ecole de New York, MAMAC Nice, France
2005
Hans Hofmann, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York City, NY (solo)
2004 - 2005
Action Painting-Arte Americana 1940-1970, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venedig in cooperation with american contemporary art GALLERY
2004
Hans Hofmann, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
"Hans Hofmann: Selections from the Berkeley Art Museum Collection" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
"Hans Hofmann: Scintillating Spaces," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA (solo)
2003
Hans Hofmann, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002
Hans Hofmann, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
"Hans Hofmann," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001
Hans Hofmann: Real/Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA (solo)
Conrad Marca-Relli, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
2000
Hans Hoffman, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich (solo)
1999
The American Years Retrospective, Residenz Galerie Salzburg," Salzburg, Austria (solo)
1997
Hans Hofmann: Wunder des Rhythmus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, traveling to the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
1994
New York-Provincetown: A 50s Connection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1990
Hons Hofmann, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1988 - 1991
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988
Tate Gallery, London (solo)
1987
University of Califnonia, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1984
American Masters, Vatican Museums and International Exhibitons Foundation, Rome, Italy
1982 - 1986
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA (solo)
1979
hans Hofmann as a Teacher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
1974
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
1973
Hans Hofmann: 52 Works on Paper, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1972 - 1980
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1972
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
1967 - 1969
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1966
Two Decades of American Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964
Guggenheim International Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1963 - 1965
Hans Hofmann, traveling exhibition in 12 museums in the USA and in Europe
1963
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1960 - 1964
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1960
Stati Uniti d‘America - Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXXVenice Biennale Venice, Italy
Neue Malerei: Form, Struktur, Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany
1958
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1957
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (retrospective)
1956
The Embellished Surface, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1954
Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
1951
"Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America" The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1950 - 1955
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1950
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1949
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Hofmann in Paris," Gallerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
1947
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1946
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1944
First Exhibition: Hans Hofmann, Art of this Century Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
1910
Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, Germany (first solo exhibition)
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée de Grenoble
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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