汉斯·霍夫曼(Hans Hofmann)
艺术家: 汉斯·霍夫曼
生于: 1880年3月21日；德国，巴伐利亚，德国
卒于: 1966年2月17日；美国
国籍: 美国,德国
流派: 抽象表现主义
领域: 绘画
受影响: 威斯利·康定斯基
影响: Helen Frankenthaler
汉斯·霍夫曼是出生于德国的美国抽象表现主义画家。
霍夫曼于1880年3月21日出生于巴伐利亚州的魏安普·恩堡，是西奥多和弗朗西斯卡·霍夫曼的儿子。当他六岁的时候，他和家人搬到了慕尼黑。霍夫曼从小就迷上了科学和数学。16岁时，他开始与巴伐利亚政府合作，担任公共工程总监助理，在那里，他能够增加他的数学知识。他继续研发并申请了诸如电磁计算器、海上舰船雷达装置、敏化灯泡、以及军用便携式冷冻装置等装置的专利。尽管在科学和数学方面有这么大的能力，霍夫曼还是对创造性研究产生了兴趣，在父亲去世后开始接受教育艺术训练。
1932年他移居美国，一直居住到生命的尽头。
霍夫曼&的艺术作品。其特点在于对画面结构、空间错觉和色彩关系的严格关注。
他的完全抽象的作品可追溯到20世纪40年代。霍夫曼认为抽象艺术是获得重要现实的一种方式。他曾有句名言：“简化的能力”是指消除不必要的东西，以便必要时可以说。
Artist :Hans Hofmann
Additional Name :Hans Hofmann
Born : Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany
Died : United States
Nationality :American,German
Art Movement :Abstract Expressionism
Influenced by :wassily-kandinsky
Influenced on :helen-frankenthaler
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.
Hofmann was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880, the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. When he was six he moved with his family to Munich. Here his father took a job with the government.
Starting at a young age, Hofmann gravitated towards science and mathematics. At age sixteen, he started work with the Bavarian government as assistant to the director of Public Works where he was able to increase his knowledge of mathematics. He went on to develop and patent such devices as the electromagnetic comptometer, a radar device for ships at sea, a sensitized light bulb, and a portable freezer unit for military use. Even with such great abilities in science and mathematics, Hofmann became interested in creative studies, beginning educational art training after the death of his father.
In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.
Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.
His completely abstract works date from the 1940s. Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at the important reality. He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak".
