Hans hofmann

Veluti in Speculum Artist:Hans Hofmann (American (born Germany), Wessenburg 1880–1966 New York) Date:1962 Medium:Oil on canvas Dimensions:85 1/4 x 73 1/2 in. (216.5 x 186.7 cm) Classification:Paintings

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This beautiful, comprehensive survey is a masterclass in abstract painting taught by a pioneer of the form.

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Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower right): hans hofmann 65; (verso, upper left): from the private collection–/ not for sale–; (verso, upper right): Summer 1965/ oil on canvas/ Renate Series #5 1965/ 72 x 48/ hans hofmann

From his early exposure to Cubism and Fauvism, Hans Hoffman evolved through a lifetime of experimenting in painting to an extraordinarily inventive approach to creating art that is often as relevant today as it was when it was created in the 1960s. Seeing his evolution in the large exhibition, ”Hans Hoffman - The Nature of Abstraction” at BAMPFA, Berkeley, reinforces my own belief in each artist’s need, and capacity, to remain open and flexible to growth and change.

The painter Hans Hofmann remains best known for his “push-pull” method, by which pictorial elements emerge, recede, and jostle in dialectical tension across a canvas’s surface. A number of works on display in the lively retrospective of Hofmann’s corpus at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) exemplify this technique.

Hans Hofmann / Untitled (Chimbote Mural) / 1950 / Oil on paper on board

Hans Hofmann. Cathedral. 1959. Oil on canvas. 6' 2

Hans Hofmann; ‘Agrigento’, 1961