artist/ HARTUNG

France

Hans Hartung, born on 21 September 1904 in Leipzig and died on 7 December 1989 in Antibes, was a French painter, photographer and architect of German origin, and one of the leading figures in abstract art. His extremely free technical experiments of the 1920s make him, in the eyes of many historians and critics, the forerunner and pioneer of numerous avant-garde movements that would develop in the second half of the 20th century: the so-called informal, gestural, tachist and lyrical movements, as well as action painting. He was awarded the International Grand Prix for Painting in Venice in 1960.