AW4-098: Hans Hartung Mid Century Modernist Spiral Whimsy Gouache on Paper Dated 1947

 Hans Heinrich Ernst Hartung (1904 - 1989) Mid Century Modernist Spiral Whimsy Gouache on Paper. Signed and dated '47 lower left. 

Dimensions: Sight 21" x 16 3/4"; Frame 22 1/4" x 17 3/4"

Comments: Hans Heinrich Ernst Hartung (Born 1904 Leipzig, Germany; Died 1989 Antibes) lived much of his life on the edge of catastrophe, but with the unshakable belief in the transforming power of art. He drew incessantly as a child, and his fascination from the very beginning was with abstract forms. For many years Hartung was to experience all the solitude and hardships that an artist breaking new ground is traditionally believed to undergo. In Paris he countered lack of money and loneliness by copying at the Louvre and visiting the galleries. He married Anna-Eva Bergman, a Norwegian painter and they moved to the island of Minorca off Spain.