BURKHARDT, Hans

1982

Watercolor and ink on paper

15 x 14"

After immigrating to the United States in 1924, Hans Burkhardt enrolled in the Grand Central School of Art, where he and Willem de Kooning took courses with Arshile Gorky, an American abstract painter whose work is a precursor to Abstract Expressionism. The artists exposure to Cubism and Surrealism while there allowed him to envision his own take on modern abstraction. Burkhardts work in Los Angeles, where he relocated to in 1937, paralleled New York artists progressively more abstract and experimental subjects. In Untitled, Biomorphic Study, Burkhardt plays with the identifiable, yet elusive, human form.

1982

BURKHARDT, Hans

United States, b. Switzerland, 1904- 1994

Gift of Drs. J.W. and Sue Colin

2012.001.003