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Hannes Beckmann BIOGRAPHY
1909 Stuttgart, Germany - 1976/77. Known for: Painting-non objective and op art imagery, teaching.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years.... Read full biography
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years. From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944... Read full biography
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years. From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was interred in a concentration camp. In 1948, he came to the United States where he settled in New York and was head of the Photographic Department at the Guggenheim Museum.... Read full biography
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years. From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was interred in a concentration camp. In 1948, he came to the United States where he settled in New York and was head of the Photographic Department at the Guggenheim Museum. After 1952, he taught Color and Design at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. Source: . Perry Rathbone (Intro), American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston... Read full biography
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years. From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was interred in a concentration camp. In 1948, he came to the United States where he settled in New York and was head of the Photographic Department at the Guggenheim Museum. After 1952, he taught Color and Design at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. Source: . Perry Rathbone (Intro), American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston... Read full biography
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Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhuas, Dessau in 1928 with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers 1932, he went to Vienna and studied photography for two years.
From 1938 to 1944, he was in Prague where he was director of a photographic studio, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was interred in a concentration camp.
In 1948, he came to the United States where he settled in New York and was head of the Photographic Department at the Guggenheim Museum. After 1952, he taught Color and Design at the Cooper Union Art School in New York.
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Perry Rathbone (Intro), American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...But wait, there's more...
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