BIOGRAPHY
Born in Leipzig, Germany, Hans Hartung (1904-1989) is one of the pioneers of abstract painting. He is one of the fathers of gestural and lyrical abstraction.
After studying philosophy and art history, the young Hans Hartung devoted himself to painting and in the 1930s led a nomadic existence between Germany, Paris and Menorca. Emancipating himself from cubism and surrealism, he then developed his formal language, a network of lines executed spontaneously and with vigor. He perfected a squaring technique that allowed him to transfer his small drawings to large format, a process he used until 1960.
As a German exiled in France, Hans Hartung experienced many vicissitudes during the Second World War. Engaged in the Foreign Legion, he lost a leg.
Tireless researcher, actor of a real formal revolution, Hans Hartung experimented throughout his life with new tools to reinvent his art. In parallel to painting, he practices photography, ceramics and engraving.
In 1960, he was awarded the International Grand Prix for painting at the Venice Biennale. This new decade marks a turning point in the practice of the artist who begins to scratch and scrape the surface of the canvas, to play with drips and splashes of paint.
Close to the sculptor Julio González, friend of Pierre Soulages and of the filmmaker Alain Resnais, Hans Hartung never stopped innovating until his last breath.
Celebrated during his lifetime, he saw major retrospectives devoted to him in Europe and the United States, notably at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1975. As an inexhaustible source of inspiration, including for young artists today, Hans Hartung is in all the major modern art museums. He continues to be the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a major retrospective in France Hans Hartung - La fabrique du geste at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in 2019.
In 2006, the Berthet-Aittouarès Gallery exhibited him, in the exhibition Hors champs, devoted to his 1970s period. A new personal exhibition took place in 2020.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- The gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary. Carte blanche to Pierre Wat, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- BRAFA 2026, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Bruxelles, Belgique
- Maria Jarema Cracked Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
- The Voices of their Works, Hans Hartung Foundation, Antibes, France
2024
- Le partage du sensible, Fondation Hartung-Bergman, Antibes, France
- Une liberté salutaire, Le Doyenné, Brioude, France
2020
- Dans les pas de Hans Hartung, Galerie Berthet Aittouarès, Paris, France
2019
- Hans Hartung, La fabrique du geste, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
2016
- Hartung peintre et légionnaire, Musée de la Légion étrangère, Aubagne, France
2014
- Lee Ungno Museum, Daejeon, South Korea
- Hans Hartung, l'Atelier du Geste, CCBB, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2012
- Musée Guimet, Paris, France
2011
- Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
2010
- Hans Hartung. Spray, Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
- Hans Hartung, BNF, Paris, France
2006
- Hans Hartung. Peintures, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2005
- Galerie Cafiso Arte, Milano, Italy
- Hartung X3, Musée de Carcassone, Carcassone, France
- Musée de Nankin, Nankin, China
- Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Beijing, China
2004
- Gemeentemuseum, La Haye, Pays-Bas
- Hans Hartung, l’espace et le geste, Ex-Eglise de Santo Stefano, Mondovi, Italy
- Hartung X3, Musée Henri Martin, Cahors, France
- So beschwur ich den Blitz, Museum Ludwig, Köhln, Germany
2003
- Musée du Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
- Musée de l’Hospice Saint Roch, Issoudun, France
- Tour 46 et musée d’art et d’histoire, Belfort, France
2000
- Galleria Civica d’Arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italie
1999
- Grundkreditbank, Kunstforum, Berlin, Germany
1998
- Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
- L’immagine, Centro d’Arte et Cultura, Naples, Italy
1997
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
1996
- Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1995
- Centro Umanistico Incontri Internazionali, Naples, Italy
- La fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman au musée Picasso, Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1993
- Hans Hartung et la musique, Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Royan, France
1991-1992
- Galerie de France, Paris, France
- Kunstverein Kreis, Ludwigsburg, Germany
1991
- Saga 91, Grand Palais Paris, France
1990
- Château d'Ô Montpellier, France
- Hans Hartung, dialogo con Julio Gonzalez, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France et IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
- Œuvres extrêmes. 1922 et 1989, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
1989
- Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
1987
- Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1986
- ENAC, Nice, France
- L’espace abstrait, Acropolis, Nice, France
- Stand Galerie Daniel Gervis, FIAC 86, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Musée d’Evreux, Evreux, France
1985
- Fiac 85, Grand Palais, Stand Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris, France
- Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1984
- Museum der Bildenen Künste, Leipzig, Germany
- La pittura in Francia, Hans Hartung, 10 grandi dipinti, Biennale, Palazzo di Sagredo, Venice, Italy
- Roshwita Haftmann Modern Art, Zürich, Switzerland
1983-84
- Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1982
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1981-82
- Staatgaleri, Moderner Kunst, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
- Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1980-81
- Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
1980
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1979
- Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1978
- Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les sables d'Olonne, France
1977
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1976
- Art Club Frédéric Gollong, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
- Galerie de France, Fiac 76, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1975
- Associated American Artists, New York, USA
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
1974-75
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, Germany
1973
- Centro arte internazionale, Milano, Italy
1971-72
- Galerie de France, Paris, France
1969
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
EDITING
Ed. Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, 2020
47 pages
Dimensions : 27 x 22 cm
N° ISBN 978-2-490315-02-4
Prix de vente: 30 €
Hans Hartung, Hors champ, les années 1970
Préface d’Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat
Ed. Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès et Aittouarès, Paris, 2006
64 pages, 56 illustrations en couleur
Dimensions : 22 x 22 cm
N° ISBN 2-95-14-51-3-7-7
Prix de vente: 25 €