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Kurt Rudolf Hoffmann (Sonderborg) was born in Sonderborg (Denmark) in 1923. At the start of the Second World War, he served an apprenticeship in a Hamburg trading house (1939-1941); arrested, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo (Winter 1941-1942). From 1942 to 1945, Sonderborg worked in the USSR. In 1946, he studied painting in the studio of the painter Ewald Becker-Carus in Hamburg. Over the next three years, he studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. He made his first trip to Italy in...

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    Biography of Kurt Rudolf Sonderborg

    Kurt Rudolf Hoffmann (Sonderborg) was born in Sonderborg (Denmark) in 1923. At the start of the Second World War, he served an apprenticeship in a Hamburg trading house (1939-1941); arrested, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo (Winter 1941-1942). From 1942 to 1945, Sonderborg worked in the USSR. In 1946, he studied painting in the studio of the painter Ewald Becker-Carus in Hamburg. Over the next three years, he studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. He made his first trip to Italy in 1951. In 1953, he joined the Groupe Zen 49 and took an interest in calligraphy, before studying printmaking in Paris at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, where he met Hartung, Soulages, Schneider and other young painters of the Paris School. Over the years, the artist traveled, exhibited and won numerous awards. His first exhibition in Germany took place in 1956. In France, his participation in the Cercle Volney's German exhibition (1955) and a solo show (Galerie René Drouin) revealed his talent. He settled and worked in New York in 1960, from then on dividing his time between New York and Paris. He was awarded the Grand Prix International du Dessin at the 7th Sao Paulo Biennale (1963). In 1965, he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, then (1969-1970) professor at the College of Arts in Minneapolis. In 1972, he travelled to Lapland, where he discovered the Maelstrom, followed by Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Sonderborg took part in numerous exhibitions and salons in France and abroad, including the Biennales in Venice (1958 and 1964), São Paulo and Documenta 3 in Kassel. This violent, darkly lyrical painting is sometimes reminiscent of contemporary music, such as that of Stockhausen.


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Composition III
Lithograph

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg - Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik », Christian Rathke, Schloss Gottorf- Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum Verlag, Schleswig (Allemagne), 2000 All the catalogues raisonnés

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To read from or about the artist :
* « Tuer un rat », André S. Labarthe et S. R. H. Sonderborg, Ed. S.M.I., Paris, 1974
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg », Otto Hahn, in revue Art Press, n°46, Ed. Art Press, Paris, mars 1981
* « K. R. H. Sonderborg », Hans Platschek, catalogue d'exposition, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, 1985
* « Deutsches Informel », Georg-W. Költzsch, Ed. Symposion Informel - 2. Auflage, Berlin, 1986
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg - Werke 1948 bis 1986 », catalogue d'exposition, Ed. Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Saarbrüchen, 1987
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg », Johann-Karl Schmidt, Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart, 1988
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg », Manfred de la Motte et autres, coll. Pentagramm, Ed. Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, 1991
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg », Sabine Fischer, catalogue d'exposition, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1993
* « K.R.H. Sonderborg - Phanotypen », catalogue d'exposition, Ed. Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, 1993
* « K. R. H. Sonderborg, Maler ohne Atelier », Alexander Klar, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, 2003
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  • + NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
  • + LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
  • + ATELIER 17 / 1927-1965 / Anton Prinner, Mauricio Lasansky, Jacques Lipchitz, Mark Rothko, etc.
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