ARTISTS FLED TO US ESCAPING EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIPS Hans Hofmann (Weißenburg in Bayern, 1880 – New York, 1966) Moved permanently in US in 1932. he taught in Berkely, New York, Princeton Still Life—Yellow Table on Green, 1936 Oil on panel Dallas Museum of Art. ARTISTS FLED TO US ESCAPING EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIPS Hans Hofmann The Wind, 1942 Oil, duco, gouache and India ink on board University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. ARTISTS FLED TO US ESCAPING EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIPS Joseph Albers joined the Bauhaus design school at Weimar, under Walter Gropius, where he became a teacher. Following the school's closure by the Nazis in 1933, he emigrated to America, where he taught first at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1933-49) and then at Yale, where he was Chairman of the Department of Architecture and Design (1950-8) Josef Albers (1888-1976) - Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken (1969), Metropolitan Museum of Art Cubism and Abstract Art, Moma, New York, 1936 Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, MoMA , New York 1936 Philip Guston, Murale New York’s Art Fair, 1939 Art of this century gallery, Peggy Guggenheim, New York , 1942 The Irascibles in a picture by Nina Leen for Life magazine, 1950 Jackson Pollock in the act of painting (1950) Photographed by Hans Namuth. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM ACTION PAINTING Jackson Pollock, Number 31, 1950 MOMA, N.Y. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM ACTION PAINTING FRANZ KLINE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM ACTION PAINTING William De Kooning Woman II, 1952 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM COLOR FIELD Ninfee, 1918 Monet al MOMA, N.Y. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM COLOR FIELD MARK ROTHKO No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM COLOR FIELD BARNETT NEWMAN Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950 Barnett Newman and unidentified woman standing in front of Cathedra (1951) in his Front Caspar David Friedrich, Viandante sul mare di nebbia, 1818. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM COLOR FIELD Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross, 14 panels of abstract art retelling Christ’s Passion,1958-66, Washington D.C., National Gallery.