**Cubism**-**painting** in times of Nazism.

Hartung was born in LEIPZIG, GERMANY into an artistic family. He studied painters like CORINTH and NOLDE and also learned the basis of cubism and French painting. Studying both in Leipzig and DRESDEN, he reproduced the paintings of the masters; he then entered the Fine Arts academies of Dresden and MUNICH. His first painting exhibition was held in 1931 in Dresden. In 1935 when he attempted to sell paintings while visiting Berlin, the police tried to arrest him. He was able to flee the country with the help of his friend CHRISTIAN ZERVOS.

The cost of **cubism** **painting** during the Nazi (Germany) world.

He was rejected from Nazi Germany on account of being a 'degenerate', because his painting style was associated with CUBISM - an art movement incompatible with Nazi Germany's ideals. After 1947 he became a more important French painter. That year he exhibited his paintings work for the first time in Paris. In 1960 he was awarded the INTERNATIONAL GRAND PRIX for PAINTING at the VENICE BIENNALE. Hartung was featured in the 1963 film documentary "School of Paris: (5 Artists at Work)" by American filmmaker WARREN FORMA. He died in December 1989.

Acrylic on Canvas
51,2 x 40,2 in (130 x 102 cm)