{"title":"American Masters - featured prints - Rosenquist and Indiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican Masters - featured prints - Rosenquist and Indiana, Featuring graphic and original work by major American Masters. Works by James Rosenquist and Robert Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-two-nudes","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Two Nudes","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Two Nudes\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the early 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1981. It is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. It is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, and dated 1947. It is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, and dated 1945. It is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090800447786,"sku":"12006","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_104711.jpg?v=1768557026"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-three-figures-in-pink-orange-and-green","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Three figures in pink, orange and green","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Three figures in pink, orange and green\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1970's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1974. This is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090805199146,"sku":"12007","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_104446.jpg?v=1768557014"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-abstract-in-purple","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract in purple","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract in purple\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1970's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1974. This is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. 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Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1974. This is 24 x 18\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090810179882,"sku":"12010","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_103916.jpg?v=1768556952"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-black-tower","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Black tower","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Black tower\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition. It is signed, dedicated and dated 1985. This is 25.5 x 19.5 \" (49.5 × 64.8 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090810966314,"sku":"12011","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241022_111750.jpg?v=1768556943"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-abstract-with-red-and-blue","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract with red and blue","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract with red and blue\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. 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Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090811982122,"sku":"12012","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_121704.jpg?v=1768556935"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-artwork-pastel-entitled-cityscape-in-purple","title":"Hans Burkhardt artwork pastel entitled Cityscape in purple","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt artwork pastel entitled Cityscape in purple\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090812244266,"sku":"12013","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_121630.jpg?v=1768556927"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-artwork-pastel-entitled","title":"Hans Burkhardt Artwork pastel entitled A \u0026 A with love","description":"\u003cp\u003e Hans Burkhardt Artwork pastel entitled A \u0026amp; A with love, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090813915434,"sku":"12014","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_121505.jpg?v=1768556920"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-artwork-pastel-entitled-distant-cathedrals-in-purple","title":"Hans Burkhardt Artwork pastel entitled Distant cathedrals in purple","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt Artwork pastel entitled Distant cathedrals in purple\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. 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Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090814734634,"sku":"12016","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_121236.jpg?v=1768556900"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-orange-tower","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Orange tower","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Orange tower, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090815324458,"sku":"12018","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_120612.jpg?v=1768556893"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pastel-entitled-abstract-with-orange-black-and-brown","title":"Hans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract with orange, black and brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt pastel entitled Abstract with orange, black and brown, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous pastel was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 11\" (38.1 × 27.9 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1982. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e10 3\/4 × 14\" (27.3 × 35.6 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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It is unframed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1993. This work measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e9.5 × 14.25\" (24.1 × 36.2 cm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090817093930,"sku":"12020","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/IMG_3425.jpg?v=1768556692"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-oil-on-canvas-the-tree-of-life","title":"Hans Burkhardt oil on canvas The Tree of life","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt oil on canvas The Tree of life\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous work is an oil on canvas, and was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is framed, and in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1987. This work measures 20 x 14\" (50 × 35 cm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. 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Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090825515306,"sku":"12021","price":19000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/IMG_2515.jpg?v=1768556667"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-oil-on-canvas-the-hand-of-grace","title":"Hans Burkhardt oil on canvas The Hand of Grace","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt oil on canvas The Hand of Grace\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a magnificent work, is an oil on canvas, and was acquired around the mid 1980's, by the present owner. It is framed, and in very good condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is signed, dedicated and dated 1987. This work measures 14 x 20\" (35 × 50 cm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090833871146,"sku":"12023","price":19000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/Burkhardtoil-14x20_-1987.jpg?v=1768556649"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-linocut-red-and-black-strands","title":"Hans Burkhardt linocut Red and Black strands","description":"\u003ch4\u003eHans Burkhardt linocut Red and Black strands\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 22 x 15\", and this work is from a tiny edition of only 4, with a signature, edition number and dedication in pencil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096760946986,"sku":"12050","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/info.jpg?v=1768556638"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-linocut-grey-explosion","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Grey explosion\" hand painted mono print","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Grey explosion\" hand painted mono print\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. This is a stunning hand painted (monoprint) linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 14 x 10.5\", which is signed, and dated 1982, in pencil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096762585386,"sku":"12051","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/info-II.jpg?v=1768556630"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-hand-painted-mono-print-linocut-the-expanding-universe","title":"Hans Burkhardt hand painted mono print linocut - Unique Art","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt hand painted mono print linocut - Unique Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. This is a stunning hand painted (monoprint) linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 10 x 13\", which is signed, dedicated, and dated 1984, in pencil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096766714154,"sku":"12052","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/IMG_3437.jpg?v=1768556627"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-in-red-yellow-and-black-monoprint","title":"Hans Burkhardt : Abstract in red, yellow and black","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt : Abstract in red, yellow and black\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut monoprint, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 21 x 13\", which is signed, and dated 1987, in pencil. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museum nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096798073130,"sku":"12054","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/IMG_3431.jpg?v=1768556617"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-two-figures-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Two Figures\" linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Two Figures\" linocut, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 21 x 30\", and is signed, numbered 7\/7 from a very small edition, and dated 1975, in pencil. This work is in very good condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096826122538,"sku":"12056","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241022_112401.jpg?v=1768556604"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-open-seas-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Seated Figure\" linocut","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Seated Figure\" linocut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 15 x 11\", and is signed, numbered 9\/10 from a very small edition, and dated 1974, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096863543594,"sku":"12058","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_122238.jpg?v=1768556579"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-pure-lust-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Sea Creatures\" linocut","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Sea Creatures\" linocut\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the early 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 21 x 23.75\", and is signed, dedicated, numbered 6\/6, and dated 1979, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. 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Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096907387178,"sku":"12061","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_120151.jpg?v=1768556571"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-portrait-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Abstract portrait\" linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Abstract portrait\" linocut, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the early 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures 15 x 11\", and is signed, dedicated, numbered 2\/6, and dated 1981, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut, and a monoprint, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e11 × 7 1\/2 in. (27.9 × 19.1 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, numbered 1\/1, and dated 1981, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50097000743210,"sku":"12063","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_100640.jpg?v=1768556500"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-purple-creature-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Standing figure with grey\" linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Standing figure with grey\" linocut, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the early 1980’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e15 × 20.5\" (38.1 × 52.1 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, and numbered 63\/4, and dated 1973, in pencil. This work is in good condition, with minor discoloration in the margins. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. Done in \u003cspan\u003e1984, this is a linocut, hand painted by the artist, and a unique monoprint. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e11 × 15 in (27.9 × 38.1 cm).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. 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It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. 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Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100363362602,"sku":"12069","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_101527.jpg?v=1768556484"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-with-tan-yellow-and-orange-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt : Abstract with tan, yellow and orange","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt : Abstract with tan, yellow and orange, From the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e15 1\/2 × 21\" (39.4 × 53.3 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, numbered 4\/10 from a very small edition, and dated 1974, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100398915882,"sku":"12060","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_102853.jpg?v=1768556471"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-reclining-figures-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Reclining figures\" linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 22.5\" (38.1 × 57.2 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, numbered 5\/5 from a very small edition, and dated 1973, in pencil. This work is in good condition, with minor mat stains in the margins, which would be covered by the framing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100414415146,"sku":"12061","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_105136.jpg?v=1768556465"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-orange-floral-linocut-hand-painted-monoprint","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Orange Floral\" linocut (hand painted monoprint)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Orange Floral\" linocut (hand painted monoprint)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1980’s. Done in \u003cspan\u003e1982, this is a linocut, hand painted by the artist, and a unique monoprint. Signed, and dedicated, measuring 11 × 7 1\/2 in (27.9 × 19.1 cm).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of such major museums as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Museum, London\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert Museum, London \u003cbr\u003eIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eWhitney Museum, New York\u003cbr\u003eHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003eThe National Gallery of Art, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003ePortland Art Museum, Portland\u003cbr\u003eHarvard Art Museum, Boston\u003cbr\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eLowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, F\u003cbr\u003eine Arts Museum of San Francisco\u003cbr\u003ePalace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco\u003cbr\u003eCal State University, Northridge (CSUN)\u003cbr\u003eUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eThe Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena\u003cbr\u003eSonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100428112170,"sku":"12071","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_100653.jpg?v=1768556457"},{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-with-purple-red-and-blue-circles-linocut","title":"Hans Burkhardt \"Abstract with purple, red and blue circles\" linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt \"Abstract with purple, red and blue circles\" linocut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the collection of Dr. Aurelio de la Vega, the world renowned Cuban composer, conductor, and music professor, who taught at Cal State Northridge (CSUN) for over three decades, during which time he was Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is in good very condition. We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e15 × 20.5\" (38.1 × 52.1 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, from a very small artist proof edition, and dated 1973, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, was a frequent guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving to Los Angeles in late 1937, Burkhardt served as a link between East and West Coast progressive art. Anticipating the work of his contemporaries in New York and Europe, he began to forge his signature style. From the 1930s through his final work in 1993, Burkhardt’s art presents a poignant testament to the human experience. His output includes monumental anti-war work (“the fiercer ones”) as well as lyrical expressions of hope (“the happy ones”). His anti-war work responded to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and conflicts in Central America and Iraq. It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. He continues to attract significant critical attention from some of the leading art historians such as Peter Selz and Donald Kuspit. 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We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e27 × 21.5\" (68.6 × 54.6 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, numbered 1\/10, and dated 1974, in pencil. This work is in good condition, with a mat stain on the left and right edges, which would be covered by your matting and framing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. 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It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. 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We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the work, and will provide a COA. This work was acquired by the present owner in the mid 1970’s. This is a stunning linocut, by this Swiss\/American Master. Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e20 × 7.5\" (50.8 × 19.1cm)\u003c\/span\u003e, and is signed, numbered 2\/12, and dated 1972, in pencil. This work is in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Burkhardt quickly became Gorky’s colleague and trusted friend. They even collaborated on several works. From 1928 to 1937, Burkhardt shared Gorky’s studio. 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It is for good reason that Eugene Anderson wrote that Burkhardt was “Goya’s spiritual heir.” Explaining his choice of subjects, Burkhardt simply stated, “I paint the way I live.” \u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s Burkhardt met and exhibited with a group of transplanted Surrealists in Los Angeles, including Man Ray, Knud Merrild, and Eugene Berman. Describing his work of this time, he wrote, “(my) paintings evolve out of emotions and ideas” — a process not unlike the Surrealist’s conception of the genesis of creative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1950, while Painterly and Color Field Abstract Expressionism held sway in New York, Burkhardt worked in isolation in Los Angeles and Mexico, painting rich abstract work of extraordinary emotional range. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 60s, as the Los Angeles art world was seduced by California Light and Space, Hard Edge, Minimalism, and Pop Art, Burkhardt continued to paint independent works of great emotional power. His masterpiece, My Lai, includes human skulls embedded into a dark scorched earth surface reminiscent of Baroque altarpieces. This work predates work by such artists as Anselm Kiefer by twenty years. Suggesting a legacy for the artist, Donald Kuspit wrote that “Burkhardt is a master — indeed the inventor — of the abstract memento mori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 70s, Burkhardt created a series of paintings entitled “Graffiti,” in which he responded to socio-political upheaval in his Swiss homeland. These Neo-Expressionist works anticipated the street art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt is known for his meticulously structured and balanced paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and representation. Burkhardt continually returned to depictions of war through abstract paintings dated from as early as World War II and as recently as the Gulf War in the early 1990s. A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis. He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust some of his solo shows and museums with this American Master's work in their permanent collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1939 Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1945 Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “Hans Burkhardt”\u003cbr\u003e1951 Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: \"Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas\" \u003cbr\u003e1953 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e1957 Pasadena Art Museum, California: \"Ten Year Retrospective\"\u003cbr\u003e1962 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: \"Thirty Year Retrospective\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1964 Palm Springs Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e1968 San Diego Museum of Art: \"Vietnam Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1972 Long Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Retrospective 1950 – 1972\" \u003cbr\u003e1973 California State University, Northridge: \"A Retrospective Exhibition\"\u003cbr\u003e1977 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California: \"Linocuts and Pastels\" \u003cbr\u003e1978 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California: \"Mark Tobey \/ Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1982 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1983 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Basel Graffiti Series\"\u003cbr\u003e1984 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Pastels: 50 Years of Figurative Expressionism\"\u003cbr\u003e1985 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings\"\u003cbr\u003e1990 Portland Art Museum, Oregon: \"Mark Tobey and Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e1991 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: \"Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms\" \u003cbr\u003e1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2008 California State University Northridge: \"Hans Burkhardt\"\u003cbr\u003e2017 Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA: \"Hans Burkhardt in Mexico\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHans Burkhardt’s works have in recent years increasingly been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. 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Printed by Mourlot, New York. \u003cbr\u003ePublished by Richard Feigen Graphics, New York, with the blind stamp lower margin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRosenquist, though he drew constantly on the technical image world as a source for motifs, expressed indifference to the internet and eschewed mechanical means of production, maintaining his faith in the human hand and its wondrous abilities as shown by the old masters in works, as he said, “made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with hair from the back of a pig’s ear.” His early experience as a painter of billboards had taught him how traditional tools used in a new context and at a different scale afforded entirely new effects. For him, the ancient tools retained infinite possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMajor Pop artist James Rosenquist used sign-painting techniques to make kaleidoscopic canvases that conjure American advertising. He embraced the visual language of commercial art, filtering images of shiny American objects through a cool, Surrealism-inflected lens. His paintings, murals, and prints evoke billboards and posters, yet they remain more mysterious and unresolved than any editorial campaign could allow. Rosenquist took art classes at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, before moving to New York and briefly joining the Art Students League. He also worked as a billboard painter. Rosenquist’s work has been shown in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, and Los Angeles, and belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Moderna Museet, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. His paintings have sold for up to seven figures at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped free of charge, if within the US. 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Shortly after moving to New York City in the 1950's (to study fine art) Rosenquist became a commercial painter working on advertising billboards. \u003cbr\u003eFor nearly three years he worked non-stop as a commercial painter - which would be both the technical training and inspiration for his aesthetic as an artist. In the early 1960's he began exhibiting paintings that resembled collages of elements from American advertising of the era. \u003cbr\u003eIn \"Push Buttons\" Rosenquist spoofs the erotic connection between woman and machine.\u003cbr\u003eDrawn from a 1955 Plymouth ad featuring a gloved woman pressing the buttons, Rosenquist juxtaposes the male hand and the female leg closely together with the buttons of the automobile.\u003cbr\u003eThe buttons are so sharply contrasted you can almost feel them click, and the combination of the images perfectly insinuates commercial and sexual desire.\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a paradigm of Rosenquist's aesthetic and technique, yet is understated and realized in a black and white palette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosenquist, though he drew constantly on the technical image world as a source for motifs, expressed indifference to the internet and eschewed mechanical means of production, maintaining his faith in the human hand and its wondrous abilities as shown by the old masters in works, as he said, “made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with hair from the back of a pig’s ear.” His early experience as a painter of billboards had taught him how traditional tools used in a new context and at a different scale afforded entirely new effects. 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Rosenquist’s work has been shown in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, and Los Angeles, and belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Moderna Museet, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. His paintings have sold for up to seven figures at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped free of charge, if within the US. 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The composition has a light left and dark right side that, given Rosenquist’s study of Eastern philosophy, is intriguingly analogous to the Chinese symbol for yin and yang. The artist balances the visual interest inherent in the subtle textures of the railroad track and its gravel bed (for which visual identification comes slowly) against the easily recognizable images of sunglasses and rocking horse. The left side of the composition is given additional visual weight by the insertion of the artist’s name, written in Chinese characters, in blue, the only color among the neutral tones of black, white, and silver.\u003cbr\u003eImplied movement is integral to Rails, the railroad track, alludes to “locomotion,” while the split of the lightning bolt, the rocking of the winged horse, and the pair of sunglasses – whose rotation on an axis is suggested by the large arrow indicating movement around the central snapline – are all additional metaphors for motion and energy. (Fine, Ruth E., Corlett, Mary Lee, Graphicstudio Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, National Gallery of Art, 1991.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosenquist, though he drew constantly on the technical image world as a source for motifs, expressed indifference to the internet and eschewed mechanical means of production, maintaining his faith in the human hand and its wondrous abilities as shown by the old masters in works, as he said, “made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with hair from the back of a pig’s ear.” His early experience as a painter of billboards had taught him how traditional tools used in a new context and at a different scale afforded entirely new effects. For him, the ancient tools retained infinite possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMajor Pop artist James Rosenquist used sign-painting techniques to make kaleidoscopic canvases that conjure American advertising. He embraced the visual language of commercial art, filtering images of shiny American objects through a cool, Surrealism-inflected lens. His paintings, murals, and prints evoke billboards and posters, yet they remain more mysterious and unresolved than any editorial campaign could allow. Rosenquist took art classes at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, before moving to New York and briefly joining the Art Students League. He also worked as a billboard painter. Rosenquist’s work has been shown in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, and Los Angeles, and belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Moderna Museet, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. His paintings have sold for up to seven figures at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped free of charge, if within the US. International shipping will be $150, via DHL.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"James Rosenquist - Rails","offer_id":51302187991338,"sku":"13903","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/Rosenquist-Rails.jpg?v=1774590373"},{"product_id":"james-rosenquist-flame-out-for-picasso","title":"James Rosenquist - Flame out for Picasso","description":"\u003ch3\u003eJames Rosenquist - Flame out for Picasso\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlame out for Picasso\u003cbr\u003eImage - 71 x 52.7 cm (27 7\/8 x 20 3\/4 in.)\u003cbr\u003eSheet - 107.7 x 75.5 cm (42 3\/8 x 29 3\/4 in.)\u003cbr\u003eSigned, titled, dated and numbered in pencil (the edition was 175 and 15 artist's proofs), published by Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin.\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by Petersburg Press in 1975\u003cbr\u003eFramed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRosenquist, though he drew constantly on the technical image world as a source for motifs, expressed indifference to the internet and eschewed mechanical means of production, maintaining his faith in the human hand and its wondrous abilities as shown by the old masters in works, as he said, “made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with hair from the back of a pig’s ear.” His early experience as a painter of billboards had taught him how traditional tools used in a new context and at a different scale afforded entirely new effects. For him, the ancient tools retained infinite possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMajor Pop artist James Rosenquist used sign-painting techniques to make kaleidoscopic canvases that conjure American advertising. He embraced the visual language of commercial art, filtering images of shiny American objects through a cool, Surrealism-inflected lens. His paintings, murals, and prints evoke billboards and posters, yet they remain more mysterious and unresolved than any editorial campaign could allow. Rosenquist took art classes at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, before moving to New York and briefly joining the Art Students League. He also worked as a billboard painter. Rosenquist’s work has been shown in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, and Los Angeles, and belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Moderna Museet, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. His paintings have sold for up to seven figures at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped free of charge, if within the US. 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Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonumental in scale, Hartley Elegies are a series of large screenprints by Robert Indiana who was inspired by the paintings of another artist–Marsden Hartley. Done between 1989 and 1994 they were inspired by the work of the prominent American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1946). They refer to a series of paintings Hartley did between 1914 and 1915 while he was in Berlin, considered among the most important works in his career that established his place among American avant-garde artists as they experimented with the new language of abstraction. 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Hartley’s style was then influenced by German Expressionists like Vassily Kandinsky, and the Cubist compositions he had encountered at Gertrude Stein’s salons during a prior stay in Paris. His abstract portraits eulogized Karl von Freyburg, the German soldier and object of Hartley’s affection who was killed in the early days of the war - not through figurative representation but rather the accretion of letters, numbers, geometric patterns, and military regalia that included the Iron Cross medal awarded to his beloved friend the day before his death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese symbols echo in the personalized lexicon of the Elegies, where they mingle with dates, initials, and emblems that transmit Indiana’s own obsessions and interpretations. “He was fascinated by the earlier artist’s use of letters, words, and numbers to summon forth a presence,” writes Susan Elizabeth Ryan in her essay for the catalog published by the Bates College Museum of Art, in Lewiston, Maine, the repository of Hartley’s archives and recipient of Indiana’s 1991 donation of the Elegies. Ryan reports that Indiana, a self-professed “sign painter,” had recognized his affinity with Hartley before encountering his predecessor’s ghost in Vinalhaven, an island off the Maine coast where Hartley had summered in the late 1930s, near the end of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana retreated to Vinalhaven in 1978 and set about restoring the former lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal society who had christened it “The Star of Hope” and left behind some of their ephemera that resurfaced in the Elegies– most notably the motto “Friendship, Truth, and Love,” which Indiana transposed and stenciled into some of the rings that lend order to overlapping elements. Other circling words included cities where the two artists had resided, the names of von Freyburg and Hartley, and the German phrases “der Amerikanische maler” (”the American painter”) and “Ich bin einBerliner” (”I am a citizen of Berlin”). That quote from John F. Kennedy’s historic 1963 speech at the Berlin Wall resonated a quarter-century later as the wall began to fall, in the same month when Indiana began working on the five rectangular and five diamond-shaped prints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana’s facility with the silkscreen process achieves a richness of color to rival paint on canvas, and a layering effect that belies his trademark flatness of form. His vibrant hues, bold type, and precise lines made his LOVE prints, paintings, and sculptures into ubiquitous icons. 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Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonumental in scale, Hartley Elegies are a series of large screenprints by Robert Indiana who was inspired by the paintings of another artist–Marsden Hartley. Done between 1989 and 1994 they were inspired by the work of the prominent American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1946). They refer to a series of paintings Hartley did between 1914 and 1915 while he was in Berlin, considered among the most important works in his career that established his place among American avant-garde artists as they experimented with the new language of abstraction. 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Hartley’s style was then influenced by German Expressionists like Vassily Kandinsky, and the Cubist compositions he had encountered at Gertrude Stein’s salons during a prior stay in Paris. His abstract portraits eulogized Karl von Freyburg, the German soldier and object of Hartley’s affection who was killed in the early days of the war - not through figurative representation but rather the accretion of letters, numbers, geometric patterns, and military regalia that included the Iron Cross medal awarded to his beloved friend the day before his death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese symbols echo in the personalized lexicon of the Elegies, where they mingle with dates, initials, and emblems that transmit Indiana’s own obsessions and interpretations. “He was fascinated by the earlier artist’s use of letters, words, and numbers to summon forth a presence,” writes Susan Elizabeth Ryan in her essay for the catalog published by the Bates College Museum of Art, in Lewiston, Maine, the repository of Hartley’s archives and recipient of Indiana’s 1991 donation of the Elegies. Ryan reports that Indiana, a self-professed “sign painter,” had recognized his affinity with Hartley before encountering his predecessor’s ghost in Vinalhaven, an island off the Maine coast where Hartley had summered in the late 1930s, near the end of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana retreated to Vinalhaven in 1978 and set about restoring the former lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal society who had christened it “The Star of Hope” and left behind some of their ephemera that resurfaced in the Elegies– most notably the motto “Friendship, Truth, and Love,” which Indiana transposed and stenciled into some of the rings that lend order to overlapping elements. Other circling words included cities where the two artists had resided, the names of von Freyburg and Hartley, and the German phrases “der Amerikanische maler” (”the American painter”) and “Ich bin einBerliner” (”I am a citizen of Berlin”). That quote from John F. Kennedy’s historic 1963 speech at the Berlin Wall resonated a quarter-century later as the wall began to fall, in the same month when Indiana began working on the five rectangular and five diamond-shaped prints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana’s facility with the silkscreen process achieves a richness of color to rival paint on canvas, and a layering effect that belies his trademark flatness of form. His vibrant hues, bold type, and precise lines made his LOVE prints, paintings, and sculptures into ubiquitous icons. 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Hartley’s style was then influenced by German Expressionists like Vassily Kandinsky, and the Cubist compositions he had encountered at Gertrude Stein’s salons during a prior stay in Paris. His abstract portraits eulogized Karl von Freyburg, the German soldier and object of Hartley’s affection who was killed in the early days of the war - not through figurative representation but rather the accretion of letters, numbers, geometric patterns, and military regalia that included the Iron Cross medal awarded to his beloved friend the day before his death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese symbols echo in the personalized lexicon of the Elegies, where they mingle with dates, initials, and emblems that transmit Indiana’s own obsessions and interpretations. “He was fascinated by the earlier artist’s use of letters, words, and numbers to summon forth a presence,” writes Susan Elizabeth Ryan in her essay for the catalog published by the Bates College Museum of Art, in Lewiston, Maine, the repository of Hartley’s archives and recipient of Indiana’s 1991 donation of the Elegies. Ryan reports that Indiana, a self-professed “sign painter,” had recognized his affinity with Hartley before encountering his predecessor’s ghost in Vinalhaven, an island off the Maine coast where Hartley had summered in the late 1930s, near the end of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana retreated to Vinalhaven in 1978 and set about restoring the former lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal society who had christened it “The Star of Hope” and left behind some of their ephemera that resurfaced in the Elegies– most notably the motto “Friendship, Truth, and Love,” which Indiana transposed and stenciled into some of the rings that lend order to overlapping elements. Other circling words included cities where the two artists had resided, the names of von Freyburg and Hartley, and the German phrases “der Amerikanische maler” (”the American painter”) and “Ich bin einBerliner” (”I am a citizen of Berlin”). That quote from John F. Kennedy’s historic 1963 speech at the Berlin Wall resonated a quarter-century later as the wall began to fall, in the same month when Indiana began working on the five rectangular and five diamond-shaped prints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana’s facility with the silkscreen process achieves a richness of color to rival paint on canvas, and a layering effect that belies his trademark flatness of form. His vibrant hues, bold type, and precise lines made his LOVE prints, paintings, and sculptures into ubiquitous icons. The Elegies reflect less traditional expressions of love between men divided by war and time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargery Gordon is a freelance arts journalist who works for ARTnews, Art + Auction,ArtInfo.com, and the official Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, among other publications. She is a professor at Barry University in Miami.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Hartley Elegies and other Indiana works have been exhibited at the Whitney and countless other museums around the world. The seclusive Indiana native lived and worked in his large estate home in Vinalhaven, Maine. Robert Indiana died in 2018, at the age of 89.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped for only $100 within if within the US. International shipping will be $150, via DHL. Unframed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLA Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Robert Indiana - The Hartley Elegies- The Berlin Series - KvF 3","offer_id":51308280086826,"sku":"13917","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/Indiana-TheHartleyElegies-TheBerlinSeries-KvF3_1990_1.jpg?v=1774769394"},{"product_id":"robert-indiana-the-hartley-elegies-the-berlin-series-kvf-4","title":"Robert Indiana - The Hartley Elegies- The Berlin Series - KvF 4","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRobert Indiana - The Hartley Elegies- The Berlin Series - KvF 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e77 × 53 in | 195.6 × 134.6 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition of 50\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThe Hartley Elegies - The Berlin Series KvF 4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1990 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSerigraph on Saunders watercolor paper from the edition of only 50. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonumental in scale, Hartley Elegies are a series of large screenprints by Robert Indiana who was inspired by the paintings of another artist–Marsden Hartley. Done between 1989 and 1994 they were inspired by the work of the prominent American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1946). They refer to a series of paintings Hartley did between 1914 and 1915 while he was in Berlin, considered among the most important works in his career that established his place among American avant-garde artists as they experimented with the new language of abstraction. These exquisite prints are hip, iconic, and contemporary, yet retain classic elements that make them timeless.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Margery Gordon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePop art icon Robert Indiana’s series of imposing serigraphs in homage to Modernist master Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) are at once commemorative and reflexive, intertwining the influences, identities, and attachments of two quintessential American painters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Indiana embarked on the Hartley Elegies in 1989, he took as his starting point the “German Officer” series Hartley painted 75 years earlier at the outset of World War I during a Berlin-based period, now viewed as a highpoint of his career (although American audiences at the time were not receptive to his subject matter). Hartley’s style was then influenced by German Expressionists like Vassily Kandinsky, and the Cubist compositions he had encountered at Gertrude Stein’s salons during a prior stay in Paris. His abstract portraits eulogized Karl von Freyburg, the German soldier and object of Hartley’s affection who was killed in the early days of the war - not through figurative representation but rather the accretion of letters, numbers, geometric patterns, and military regalia that included the Iron Cross medal awarded to his beloved friend the day before his death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese symbols echo in the personalized lexicon of the Elegies, where they mingle with dates, initials, and emblems that transmit Indiana’s own obsessions and interpretations. “He was fascinated by the earlier artist’s use of letters, words, and numbers to summon forth a presence,” writes Susan Elizabeth Ryan in her essay for the catalog published by the Bates College Museum of Art, in Lewiston, Maine, the repository of Hartley’s archives and recipient of Indiana’s 1991 donation of the Elegies. Ryan reports that Indiana, a self-professed “sign painter,” had recognized his affinity with Hartley before encountering his predecessor’s ghost in Vinalhaven, an island off the Maine coast where Hartley had summered in the late 1930s, near the end of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana retreated to Vinalhaven in 1978 and set about restoring the former lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal society who had christened it “The Star of Hope” and left behind some of their ephemera that resurfaced in the Elegies– most notably the motto “Friendship, Truth, and Love,” which Indiana transposed and stenciled into some of the rings that lend order to overlapping elements. Other circling words included cities where the two artists had resided, the names of von Freyburg and Hartley, and the German phrases “der Amerikanische maler” (”the American painter”) and “Ich bin einBerliner” (”I am a citizen of Berlin”). That quote from John F. Kennedy’s historic 1963 speech at the Berlin Wall resonated a quarter-century later as the wall began to fall, in the same month when Indiana began working on the five rectangular and five diamond-shaped prints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndiana’s facility with the silkscreen process achieves a richness of color to rival paint on canvas, and a layering effect that belies his trademark flatness of form. His vibrant hues, bold type, and precise lines made his LOVE prints, paintings, and sculptures into ubiquitous icons. The Elegies reflect less traditional expressions of love between men divided by war and time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargery Gordon is a freelance arts journalist who works for ARTnews, Art + Auction,ArtInfo.com, and the official Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, among other publications. She is a professor at Barry University in Miami.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Hartley Elegies and other Indiana works have been exhibited at the Whitney and countless other museums around the world. The seclusive Indiana native lived and worked in his large estate home in Vinalhaven, Maine. Robert Indiana died in 2018, at the age of 89.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work will be shipped for only $100 within if within the US. International shipping will be $150, via DHL. 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