Then in the fall, at the advice of his wife, Miz, he opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. He returned the next year and by 1933, he spent a summer as guest instructor at the Thurn School of Art in Massachusetts. That’s what brought him to the United States for the first time, in 1930, when he was invited to teach a summer session at the University of California at Berkeley. “Seeing Hofmann’s works on paper is like watching him think.”īesides being an acclaimed artist, Hofmann was a highly regarded arts educator. The exhibition is a portrait of a giant of modernist abstraction from a particularly intimate and revealing point of view,” said Karen Wilkin, who served as guest curator along with Marcelle Polednik, MOCA’s former executive director. The show includes 76 of Hofmann’s works on paper as well as four of Hofmann’s paintings, all loaned for the show by Jacksonville collectors. That’s nicely illustrated by “Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper,” which opens Saturday at MOCA. “He reinvented himself time and time again.” You can’t characterize him with one individual style,” said the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s curator Jaime DeSimone.
He then spent time in Paris in the early 1900s where he befriended Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse and embraced such movements as Cubism and Fauvism. citizen Hans Hofmann embraced many styles.īorn in 1880, he was first drawn to Impressionism. Though he is considered one of the pioneers of abstract expressionism, during his long career the German-born painter-turned-U.S.
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