Hans Hartung

Hartung left Germany in 1928 for Paris. During the war, he enlisted with the French Foreign Legion and fought in North Africa. He lost a leg and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre. In 1960, he won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale. His gestural paintings inspired American Lyrical abstraction of the 1960s.

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https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=hartung&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500003694
https://fondationhartungbergman.fr/hans-hartung/