Creation In Form & Color: Hans Hofmann

From 1904 to 1914 the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) who was friends with Picasso Braque Matisse the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay became an eyewitness to the new art that he carried with him in the European cultural metropolis of Paris. In his art school founded in Munich in 1915 he became a mediator of French modernism and an internationally renowned art teacher. In 1932 he emigrated to the USA where two years later he opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. He influenced a new generation of American artists including artists such as Jackson Pollock Helen Frankenthaler Barnett Newman.