Hans Hartung 1904 Born in Leipzig, Germany 1989 Died in Antibtes, France 1924 Studied in the University of Leipzig on Philosophy and Art History 1930 Studied in Fine Arts Academy of Dresden Solo Exhibitions 2017-2018 Hans Hartung (1904-1989) Abstraction: A Human Language, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong Hans Hartung - Polittici, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy Hartung et les peintres lyriques, Fondation Leclerc, Landerneau, France 2016 Beau Geste: Hans Hartung, Painter and Legionnaire, Museum of the Foreign Legion and Art Center Les Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France Hans Hartung and Photography, Museum of contemporary art, Siegen, Germany Hans Hartung N° 2, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, catalog by Setareh Gallery, Germany 2014 Hans Hartung: L’Atelier du Geste, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil Art Informel in Paris, Lee Ungno Museum, Daejon, South Korea 2013 Hans Hartung, l ’ Opera Grafica, Istituto Nazionale per la Graca, Rome, Italy 2012 Hans Hartung Paintings 1960’s -1970’s, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2011 Les Sujets de l’Abstraction : Simon Hantaï, Gérard Schneider, Georges Mathieu, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung..., Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland The Art of Writing: Cy Twombly, André Masson, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung..., Artforum - Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany Hans Hartung, The Final Years 1980-1989, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England 2010-2011 Hans Hartung, Prints, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, France 2010 Hans Hartung : The Last Paintings 1989, Cheim & Read, New York, USA 2009 Hans Hartung: The Last Work, Caserma Cosenz, Gaeta, Italy 2008 Hans Hartung: esencial, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Hans Hartung: Gesture and Method, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint- Paul-de-Vence, France 2007-2008 Hans Hartung: Spontaneous Calculation. Paintings, Photographs, Film 1922-1989, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany 2005 Hartung in China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; National Museum, Nanjing, China 2004 Hans Hartung: So beschwor ich den Blitz [So I Pleaded with the Lightning]. Works on Paper, 1922-1938; Large Format Paintings, 1980-1989. Small Format Works, 1922-1989, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Hans Hartung, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Belfort, France; tour 46, Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France 2000 Hans Hartung, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy 1998 Hans Hartung, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan 1996 Hartung, Modern Painter, Le Capitou - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fréjus, France 1992-1993 Hans Hartung: Extreme Works, 1922-1989, Musée de Montbéliard, France; Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany 1988 Hartung: Paintings 1988, Galerie Sapone, Nice, France Hans Hartung: Recent Works, 1986-1988, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne, France 1987 Hans Hartung, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy 1984 Hans Hartung: Early Paintings, 1922-1949, Musée Picasso, Antibes, France Hans Hartung: 1971-1983, Noroit, Arras, France Hans Hartung: 80th Birthday Tribute: Paintings and Lithographs, 1964- 1984, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, Germany Hans Hartung: Graphic Works [46 acquisitions], Kupferstich- Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany 1983 Hans Hartung: Paintings 1980-1983, Galerie Sapone, Nice, France 1981-1982 Hans Hartung: Paintings, Drawings, Photography, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany 1980 Hans Hartung: A Vision into Abstraction (1923-1964)—A 75th Birthday Tribute, Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, UK; Peis-Leusden, Berlin, Germany 1979 Hartung: Works from 1922-1939, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Hans Hartung : The Photographs of Hans Hartung, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saôn, France 1978 Hans Hartung: Works on Paper. Retrospective (1922-1978), Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables-d'Olonne, France 1977 Hans Hartung, Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Emka, Belgium Hans Hartung ; Paintings and Works on Paper 1976-1977, Galerie de France, Paris, France Hans Hartung: Paintings and Graphic Works, Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen, Germany 1975-1976 Hartung, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Hans Hartung: Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 1974-1975 Hans Hartung: Works from Five Decades, a traveling retrospective exhibition: Wallraf- Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; National galerie, Berlin, Germany; Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 1974 Hans Hartung: 1971-1974, Galerie de France, Paris, France The Graphic Works of Hans Hartung, Städtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany Hans Hartung: 1971-1974, Galerie de France, Paris, France Hans Hartung: Graphic Works from Erker-Presse 1973, Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Germany 1971 Hans Hartung : 1971, Galerie de France, Paris, France Hartung: Large Format Works 1961-1971, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul- de-Vence, France 1969 Hans Hartung, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Canada; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada 1968 Hans Hartung: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK 1967 Hartung, Galleria d'Arte Narciso, Turin, Italy 1966 Hans Hartung,Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy 1965 Hans Hartung: Small Graphic Works, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, Germany 1963-1964 Hartung, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1963 Hans Hartung, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Hans Hartung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Hans Hartung, Erker-Galerie, Gallusplatz, St. Gallen, Switzerland 1962 XXXI Biennale, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Fifty New Works by Hans Hartung, Galerie de France, Paris, France 1961 Works by Hans Hartung 1920 to 1939, Galerie de France, Paris, France 1960 Hans Hartung, Gimpel Fils, London, UK Hans Hartung, Galerie de France, Paris, France 1959 Hans Hartung : Pastels, Kleemann Galleries, New York, USA 1958 Hans Hartung : 35 Pastel and Pencil Drawings, Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, Germany Hans Hartung : City of Siegen Rubens Award exhibition, City Hall, Siegen, Germany 1957 Hans Hartung, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany; Württembergische Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany Hans Hartung : Paintings, Kleemann Galleries, New York, USA 1954 Hartung, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1953 Paintings by Hans Hartung, Lefevre Gallery, London, UK 1951 Hans Hartung, Fritz Winter, Das Amerika-Haus, Erlangen, Germany 1949 Hans Hartung: Abstractions, Hanover Gallery, London, UK 1947 First one-man show, Galerie Lydia Conti, Paris, France Group Exhibitions 2013 The Roots of Signs: Graphic Works, Roma Istituto nazionale per la grafica, Rome, Italy Abstract Paintings, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2011 Boeing 70, Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy 2009-2010 Deadline: Martin Kippenberger, Absalon, Hans Hartung, James Lee Byars, Félix González-Torres, Joan Mitchell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chen Zhen, Gilles Aillaud, Willem de Kooning, Hannah Villiger, Jörg lmmendorff, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 1981 Hartung, Bergman, Bret, Clavé, Farhi, Guitet, Helion, Kijno, Laude, Lipszyc, Pignon, Prassinos, Soulages, Zao Wou-Ki, Cloître Saint-Louis, Aix-en- Provence, France 1980-1981 Hans Hartung, Anna-Eva Bergman: Tapestries and Woodcuts, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France 1969 Hartung, Tàpies, Johns, Hozo: 8th International Biennal of Graphic Art Ljubljana, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 1958 Léger - Matisse - Picasso - Miró - Laurens- Magnelli - Arp - Hartung - Jacobsen, Musée de l'Art Wallon, Wallon Museum of Art, Liège, Belgium 1956 Participates in the exhibition Abstract Painters along with Bazaine, Bertholle, Bissière, Eble, Estève, Jan, Lanskoy, Louttre, Manessier, Le Moal, Nallar, Palazuelo, Vieira da Silva, Singier, Spiller, de Staël, Ubac, , Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Swtizerland 1938 Participates in Exhibition of Twentieth-Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 1937 Participates in the exhibition Origins and Development of International Independent Art, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France From Cézanne to Non-Figurative Art organized by Christian Zervos, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France 1936 Recent Works by Arp, Ferren, Giacometti, Hartung, Hélion, Kandinsky, Nelson, Paalen, Tauber-Arp, La Galerie Pierre, Paris, France Awards 1989 Awarded the distinction of Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Mitterrand 1984 Awarded Bundesverdienstkreuz (Cross of Merit) by the Federal Republic of Germany, with a star 1981 Awarded first Oskar Kokoschka Prize established by the Austrian government 1978 Awarded membership in the Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Maximilian Order for Science and Art), Bonn, Germany 1977 Nominated to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1975 Awarded Citoyen d’Honneur by the city of Antibes, France 1967 Prix d’Honneur at the VII International Print Exhibition in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia [Slovenia]). Nominated to France’s International Order of Arts and Letters (Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres) 1959 Awarded the International Grand Prize in Painting at the Venice Biennale by Jury unanimously 1956 Awarded