Hans Hofmann

About this book

As a teacher Hans Hofmann left his mark on generations of artists in both Europe and America. He had an equally brilliant career as a painter. Hofmann operated a famous teaching studio first in Europe and then in New York at a pivotal moment when a new kind of subjective non-figurative art was emerging as the dominant movement. His work is insistent upon color texture and form and his astoundingly liberated later canvases are more than expressions of a creative process; they are in the words of art historian Robert Goldwater "...less the culmination of a life-long development than a kind of rebirth an entirely new youthful phase."