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The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust (the Trust) was created under the will of Renate Hofmann, which was admitted to probate by the Surrogate's Court of New York County in 1996. The Trust was named for Renate Hofmann, the second wife and widow of Hans Hofmann, Hans Hofmann, and Maria Wolfegg Hofmann, Hofmann's first wife and partner for ...
- HANS HOFMANN
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract...
- THE ARTIST
From his early landscapes of the 1930s, to his “slab”...
- HANS HOFMANN
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism and stands as one of the most important characters of post-war American art.
From his early landscapes of the 1930s, to his “slab” paintings of the late 1950s, and his abstract works at the end of his career upon his death in 1966, Hofmann continued to create boldly experimental color combinations and formal contrasts that transcended genre and style.
Between 1900 and 1904, Hofmann met his future wife, Maria “Miz” Wolfegg (1885–1963) in Munich, and also became acquainted with Philipp Freudenberg, owner of Berlin's high-end department store, Kaufhaus Gerson, and an avid art collector.
Towards the end of his life, in 1965, Hofmann produced the Renate Series, which was inspired by his second wife Renate Schmitz. These paintings, among them the present work belonging to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, are held to be the culminating point of his non-objective language, which attempted to reconcile the clarity of geometric ...
Hofmann’s extensive writings can explain in considerable detail the elaborate, yet fundamentally simple, formal principles of “tension,” “expansion,” “push and pull” that constitute the basis for his “entire new pictorial approach” to painting.
American, born Germany. 1880–1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.
