Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann
Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed by Hans Ittmann

Hans Ittmann – Abstract Composition, 1945 – oil on canvas, framed 1945

Hans Ittmann

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95 ⨯ 50 ⨯ 4 cm
ConditionVery good
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Van Kerkhoff Art

  • Over kunstwerk
    An abstract composition, oil on canvas. Painted by the Dutch artist Hans Ittmann in 1945. Signed by the artist, Professionally framed.


    About Hans Ittmann

    Hans Ittmann (Waalwijk 1914 – Amsterdam 1972) was a Dutch sculptor and painter. He was born the son of notary/lawyer Hendrik Coenraad Ittmann and Hillegonda Judith Welsch. He initially started studying law to later take over his father’s notary office. During this period, however, he also developed his talent for painting, and it soon became clear that he was a talented draughtsman.

    From the mid-1930s, Ittmann started painting in a small studio on Amsterdam’s Looierstraat. In 1941, he made the final decision to focus entirely on art and broke off his law studies in Leiden. During World War II, he added sculpture to his creative repertoire, taking lessons from Cephas Stouthamer. His early sculpture was figurative and playful, in line with his paintings and watercolours of the period.

    After the war, Ittmann joined the exhibition society De Onafhankelijken, where he worked with Juul Neumann. During this period, he abandoned figuration and was regularly mentioned as one of the abstract artists with an expressionist orientation. Like the members of the Cobra artists’ group, Ittmann was also interested in so-called “primitive” cultures, which can be seen in his collages, sculptures and work titles.
    Between 1946 and 1948, Ittmann studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris on a scholarship from the French government, along with Siep van de Berg and Henk Peters. He took classes with Gimondeau and then worked in Ossip Zadkine’s studio for a year. In 1947, he married pianist and composer Trudy Kuipers.

    In 1947, Ittmann joined the artists’ organisation ‘Vrij Beelden’, which advocated abstract and experimental art. In 1951, he joined the artists’ group ‘Creatie’: the Society for Absolute Abstraction. Ittmann was one of the initiators of a reunion with Vrij Beelden, which resulted in the founding of the Liga Nieuw Beelden in 1955.

    In the late 1950s, he participated in the Urban Spaces Study Group, where artists and architects collaborated on designs for Amsterdam. Ittmann founded a design for Surinameplein with Neumann and architect Gawronsky. Around 1960, he returned to a more expressive painting style, in which the influence of Jackson Pollock was evident. From the 1960s, Ittmann increasingly concentrated on monumental sculptural work, with his metal sculptures becoming heavier and more organic by 1970. In 1972, Hans Ittmann died of a heart attack at his home in Amsterdam at the age of 58.


    Signed
    Signed by the artist (front, bottom, right)

    Condition
    Good original condition, professionally framed. Some minor damage to the frame.

    Provenance
    Klasema Art
    Exhibited: CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen 1996

    Dimensions
    Artwork
    Height 65 cm
    Width 45 cm

    Frame
    Height 95 cm
    Width 50 cm
    Depth 4 cm
  • Over kunstenaar

    Hans Ittmann was een Nederlandse kunstenaar uit Amsterdam die voornamelijk als beeldhouwer werkte. Hij heeft vele reliëfs, keramiek, sculpturen, gouaches en schilderijen gemaakt. Hij studeerde aanvankelijk rechten om notaris te worden, maar besloot in 1941 te stoppen om zijn leven aan zijn kunst te wijden.

    Zijn vroegste werken zijn voornamelijk gouaches en sculpturen, gemaakt onder supervisie van Cephas Stauthamer. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog reisde Ittmann naar Parijs waar hij meer dan drie jaar ging studeren aan de École des Beaux Arts nadat de Franse regering hem een ​​studiebeurs had toegekend. Hij kreeg les van Ossip Zadkine. Ittmann deed het relatief goed als kunstenaar en werd aangenomen, mede omdat hij uit een rijke familie stamde.

    Hij heeft veel reizen gemaakt naar onder meer Zuid-Amerika, Noord-Afrika, Joegoslavië en Italië, wat zijn werk sterk heeft beïnvloed. Hij was actief in vele kunstenaarsverenigingen in Nederland, zoals de NKVB (Nederlandse Vereniging van Beeldhouwers) en Arti et Amicitiae. Ittmann was te zien in exposities in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag en het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

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