Hans Hofmann : Chimbote : Farben für die neue Stadt = colors for the new city / Herausgeber, Britta E. Buhlmann, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966

Buhlmann, Britta, editor.

Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, editor, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Museum Lothar Fischer, host institution.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966--Exhibitions.

Hofmann, Hans.

Artists' preparatory studies--Exhibitions.

Artists' preparatory studies.

Abstract expressionism--Exhibitions.

Abstract expressionism.

Mural painting and decoration--Exhibitions.

Mural painting and decoration.

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

85 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Chimbote : Farben für die neue Stadt

Colors for the new city

Place of Publication:

Esslingen : DCV ; Kaiserslautern : MPK, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 2022.

Language Note:

Parallel texts in German and English.

Summary:

As an exponent of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann (b. Weißenburg, Germany, 1880; d. New York, USA, 1966) ranks among the preeminent artists of the twentieth century. As a teacher at his Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1933 after emigrating to the United States, he exerted a formative influence over a generation of young painters. With Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and others, he was a member of the illustrious New York School, a loose association of visual artists. In 1950 he was spending time in Europe and collaborated with the architects Josep Lluís Sert and Paul Lester Wiener on designs for colorful wall paintings to be executed on buildings in Chimbote, Peru. The urban masterplan they developed for the city's post-World War II expansion was never realized, and so Hofmann's intensely colorful works in large formats have been known only to specialists. The selection gathered in this book together with drawings and a city plan provides focused insight into a visionary project. Exhibition: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (09.04. - 18.09.2022).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, April 9-September 18, 2022, and at Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, October 23, 2022-January 29, 2023.

Local Notes:

In conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, April 9 - September 18, 2022.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783969120460

3969120462

OCLC:

1314884469

Publisher Number:

9783969120460