Hans Hofmann - Color offset lithograph. Poster: PACE COLUMBUS from 1980 (rare)

Beautiful large and rare color poster by the famous German-American painter Hans Hofmann ( 1880-1966 ) An original work by Hans Hofmann was used for this poster. The poster was for the exhibition at Pace/Columbus in OHIO in 1980 The work is signed in the print with a monogram. Through his work, Hofmann had a great influence on the New York avant-garde of the 1940s, but even more so as a teacher—not as a student mentor (almost none of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists studied with him), but through his lectures and writings. Nevertheless, he had students, including the Hungarian/Dutch artist Sárika Góth.[1] Clement Greenberg wrote that one could learn more about Matisse's colors from Hofmann than from Matisse himself,[2] and that no one in America "understood Cubism as thoroughly as Hofmann did".[2] Harrison calls Hofmann, and Arshile Gorky, "significant figures involved in but not central to" the Abstract Expressionist movement.