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Stamp by Hans Hartung
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung, père de l’abstraction lyrique, s’est éteint en le 7 décembre 1989 à Antibes (Côte d’Azur, France) ; il y vivait et y travaillait, avec Anna Eva Bergman, dans la maison « Les grands Oliviers » que le couple avait fait bâtir en 1972 ; dans cette demeure vient de s’ouvrir (2006) une Fondation portant leurs noms. Selon les voeux d’Hans Hartung, ses cendres ont été dispersées en Méditerranée. Sur ces flots en hommage, que vogue à l’écume notre fleur de lavande.
"Lorsque j'avais entre huit et douze ans, j'étais passionné d'astronomie. Je cherchais à dessiner des éclairs." - Hans Hartung
"Travaille avec intelligence et application." - André Lhote (Appréciation sur son élève)
"Bien avant 1939, Hartung avait une très importante place parmi les jeunes peintres de l’Ecole de Paris." - Christian Zervos (Critique d’art)
"La tache devenait libre, elle s’exprimait par elle-même, par sa forme, par son intensité, par son rythme, par sa violence, par son volume. Mes taches s’étalaient, envahissant toute la surface de la toile. Peinture noire et inquiète qui reflétait mon angoisse, mon grand pessimisme devant l’avenir." - Hans Hartung
"J’admire Hans Hartung . . . J’envie au peintre la visualisation, la concrétisation des idées ou des passions, la complexité dramatique qui s’exprime, et le fait, surtout, de tenir, sur une surface réduite, un univers immense." - Eugène Ionesco
"Griffonner, gratter, agir sur la toile, peindre enfin, me semblent des activités humaines aussi immédiates, spontanées et simples que peuvent l'être le chant, la danse ou le jeu d'un animal, qui court, piaffe ou s'ébroue." - Hans Hartung
Notes of biography
Hans Hartung was born in Leipzig (Germany) in 1904. He grew up with a musical sensibility due to his acquaintances, and kept it all his life long. He studied first to the Akademie der schönen Künste of the same city (1924-1926), then studied to the Fine Art of Munich. Hans Hartung liked the art of Rembrandt, Goya, Greco, but also Kokoschka, Nolde, and created abstracted works with a profound peculiarity.
In 1928, he met Anna-Eva Bergman in Paris, a young Norwegian artist who came to study like him in France; they married in 1929. His first exhibition was organized in 1931. He left Germany in 1932, travelled in Europe, then settled down in Paris in 1935. He painted then watercolours and abstract canvases.
In 1944, Hans Hartung joined the Foreign Legion; he got injured and his right leg was amputated. In 1945, he got the french naturalization. His art reflected his nightmares and sufferings in an abstract and lyric painting. He covered his canvases with hatchings and whirlwinds, big dark masses drawn in the Indian ink, in the oil or in the pastel. The artist thought that only the "tachisme" could say the despair of the horrors of the war.
Hans Hartung got the first price of “la Biennale de Venise” in 1960. At that time, Hartung began to paint acrylic on big formats, alternately struck or scratched by fast touches. He "stigmatized" his painting by means of brooms, combs and branches. The artist made every effort with his work to fix the dynamism and the constancy of the forces which create the material, the light and the spirit. In 1986, Hartung began a series of very colored works where he threw “coulures” and strainings on wrapping paper. During the last three years of his life, Hartung was always looking for an artistic revival work to offer, offer himself, an ultimate period of creation. His wife, Anna-Eva Bergman disappeared in 1987. Hans Hartung died in 1989 in Antibes (France). According to his wishes, his ashes were scattered in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hans Hartung, in his lifetime, will have received all the honorings and all the honors. It is in Antibes that just opened to the public a centre -having the artist name- museum and centre of study on his work (2006).
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Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Hartung », P. Descargues, Cercle d’Art, Paris, 1977
- « Hans Hartung », MAM de la Ville de Paris, 1980
- « Hans Hartung, monographie », Pierre Daix, Daniel Gervis/Ed. Milan, 1991
- « Hartung x 3 », F. Kaisert & autres, Fondation Hartung, Paris, 2003
- « Hartung - 10 perspectives », collectif, Ed. Les presses du réel, 2006
- « Hans Hartung, le geste et la méthode », Michel Enrici, Ed. Fondation Maeght, 2008
- « H. Hartung - Spray », H. Audiffren, C. Rondeau, cat., Silvana Ed., 2011
- « H. Hartung et les peintres lyriques », X. Douroux, T. Schlesser, ed. Fond Leclerc, 2016
- « H. H. - Peintre et légionnaire », collectif, Fond. Hartung-Bergman, Ed. Gallimard, 2016
- « H. Hartung et la photographie (und die Fotografie) », Eva Schmidt, Hirmer Verlag, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Entretiens sur l'art abstrait », Raymond Bayer, Ed. Pierre Caillé, 1964
- « Autoportrait », Grasset, 1976, réédition Les presses du réel, 2016
Website :
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Stamp by Hans Hartung
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsArtist's dedicace
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung, père de l’abstraction lyrique, s’est éteint en le 7 décembre 1989 à Antibes (Côte d’Azur, France) ; il y vivait et y travaillait, avec Anna Eva Bergman, dans la maison « Les grands Oliviers » que le couple avait fait bâtir en 1972 ; dans cette demeure vient de s’ouvrir (2006) une Fondation portant leurs noms. Selon les voeux d’Hans Hartung, ses cendres ont été dispersées en Méditerranée. Sur ces flots en hommage, que vogue à l’écume notre fleur de lavande.
"Lorsque j'avais entre huit et douze ans, j'étais passionné d'astronomie. Je cherchais à dessiner des éclairs." - Hans Hartung
"Travaille avec intelligence et application." - André Lhote (Appréciation sur son élève)
"Bien avant 1939, Hartung avait une très importante place parmi les jeunes peintres de l’Ecole de Paris." - Christian Zervos (Critique d’art)
"La tache devenait libre, elle s’exprimait par elle-même, par sa forme, par son intensité, par son rythme, par sa violence, par son volume. Mes taches s’étalaient, envahissant toute la surface de la toile. Peinture noire et inquiète qui reflétait mon angoisse, mon grand pessimisme devant l’avenir." - Hans Hartung
"J’admire Hans Hartung . . . J’envie au peintre la visualisation, la concrétisation des idées ou des passions, la complexité dramatique qui s’exprime, et le fait, surtout, de tenir, sur une surface réduite, un univers immense." - Eugène Ionesco
"Griffonner, gratter, agir sur la toile, peindre enfin, me semblent des activités humaines aussi immédiates, spontanées et simples que peuvent l'être le chant, la danse ou le jeu d'un animal, qui court, piaffe ou s'ébroue." - Hans Hartung
Art movements
+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
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