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Hans Hoffmann

A Life of Color and Motion Born Johan Georg Albert in Weißenburg, Bavaria, the man who would become known to history as Hans Hofmann carried the spirit of the European avant-garde across the Atlantic. His early years were shaped by the streets of Munich, where he began his studies at various art schools in 1898. The path of his life was altered by the patronage of Philip Freudenberg, a collector from Berlin, whose support allowed Hofman

n to wander through Paris between 1904 and 1914. In those Parisian years, he walked among the giants of modernism, finding himself in the company of figures like Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. These encounters planted seeds of Cubism and Fauvism that would bloom much later in his own hands. The winds of war eventually pulled him back to Munich. Though a lung condition spared him from military service during the Great War, it did not…