Hans (Jean) Hofmann
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Hans (Jean) Hofmann |
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Male |
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Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany |
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German |
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1880 |
| Death: |
1966 |
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Abstract Expressionist |
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Painter
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Biography
Hans Hofmann was an abstract expressionist painter. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life. According to the Hofmann biography at the Tate Gallery website, Hofmann's work is distinguished by "a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships."
The Guggenheim Collection's information on Hofmann states that his "completely abstract works date from the 1940s". Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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