Hans Hofmann
Subtitle: Chimbote : Farben für die neue Stadt = Chimbote : colors for the new city
By: Herausgeber: Britta E. Buhlmann, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Contributors: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966; Buhlmann, Britta, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern; Museum Lothar Fischer
Publisher: DCV; MPK, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Esslingen; Kaiserslautern
Language: ger
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9783969120460
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists' preparatory studies; Abstract expressionism; Mural painting and decoration
Other titles: Chimbote :; Chimbote :
Description: As an exponent of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann (b. Weißenburg, Germany, 1880; d. New York, USA, 1966) ranks among the preeminent artists of the twentieth century. As a teacher at his Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1933 after emigrating to the United States, he exerted a formative influence over a generation of young painters. With Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and others, he was a member of the illustrious New York School, a loose association of visual artists. In 1950 he was spending time in Europe and collaborated with the architects Josep Lluís Sert and Paul Lester Wiener on designs for colorful wall paintings to be executed on buildings in Chimbote, Peru. The urban masterplan they developed for the city's post-World War II expansion was never realized, and so Hofmann's intensely colorful works in large formats have been known only to specialists. The selection gathered in this book together with drawings and a city plan provides focused insight into a visionary project. Exhibition: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (09.04. - 18.09.2022).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in English and German.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, April 9-September 18, 2022, and at Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, October 23, 2022-January 29, 2023.