Hans Ittmann - Artist Info

About Hans Ittmann

  • Biography

    Hans Ittmann was born in 1914.

    Ittmann started his career as a sculptor in the studio of Zadkine. Soon after the war Hans Ittmann went to Paris on a scholarship from the French government and he remained there until 1948.

    Ittmann worked in a variety of materials and even before his arrival in Paris he had produced abstract work in which expressive forms drift like fragments of brightly coloured, collage like, on a background of saturated colours.

    In 1951 he was invited to become a member of the artist group 'Creatie: de vereniging voor Absolute Abstractie', that was later transformed in the group 'Liga Nieuwe Beelden'.

    During his life Ittmann realised many large sculptures in iron and metal relate...

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