Hans Burkhardt Pastel Gouache Nude 1973 Framed

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Hans Burkhardt 1904 - 1994 a stunning pastel of one of Burkhardt's artistically beautiful nudes in strong vivid colors. Framed … Read more Hans Burkhardt 1904 - 1994 a stunning pastel of one of Burkhardt's artistically beautiful nudes in strong vivid colors. Framed in a large thick gilt wood frame. Signed and dated 1973 with artists blind stamp, lower right and inscribed to Werner.

Hans Burkhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1904, emigrating to New York in 1924. Upon his arrival to New York, he became associated with the pioneers of what was to later emerge as the New York School, Arshile Gorky and Willem De Kooning. He shared Gorky's studio between 1928 and 1937. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1939, Burkhardt independently pursued his Abstract Expressionist style, and is well-known for his richly drawn pastel abstractions of the figure.
Critic Peter Frank called Burkhardt “…one of America’s most vital abstract expressionist painters, someone who took the seed of the movement and cultivated it a rather different way in very different soil,” and historian Eugene Anderson declared Burkhardt “Goya’s spiritual heir.
Burkhardt’s works are included in the collections of major museums, the British Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Palace of the Legion Honor, Santa Barbara Museum and Los Angeles County Museum. In 1992, Burkhardt was honored in New York by the American Academy of Art for his lifetime achievement. He died in Los Angeles in 1994. See less