{"product_id":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-blue-linocut","title":"hans-burkhardt-abstract-blue-linocut","description":"\u003cp\u003ehans-burkhardt-abstract-blue-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 \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. 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":50103173120298,"sku":"12068","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0087\/6192\/files\/20241021_102122.jpg?v=1768556440","url":"https:\/\/mlagallery.com\/products\/hans-burkhardt-abstract-blue-linocut","provider":"MLA Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}