David Hare (artist)

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David Hare (born March 10, 1917 in New York , † December 21, 1992 in Jackson , Wyoming ) was an American painter and sculptor of Surrealism and photographer . Hare was also a representative of the American abstract expressionism art movement .

life and work

David Hare was the son of Meredith Hare, a lawyer, his mother was Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, as an art collector she supported the Armory Show in 1913 .

From 1936 to 1937, Hare studied biology and chemistry at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. After graduating, he moved to Roxbury, Connecticut, and began working with color photography. In Roxbury he met artists such as his neighbors Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky and Yves Tanguy , who was married to Hare's cousin Kay Sage . In 1940 he made for Clark Wissler from the American Museum of Natural History portraits of Pueblo - Indians in New Mexico in the southwestern United States. In 1940 he opened a studio for photography in New York; in the same year the Julien Levy Gallery dedicated a solo exhibition to him.

In 1941 David Hare met André Breton , who had emigrated to New York from France. Breton planned the publication of a surrealist magazine with the help of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst . David Hare was editor of VVV from 1942 to 1944. During this time he started working on surrealist sculptures as an autodidact. André Breton's second wife, Jacqueline Lamba , separated from her husband in 1942 after an affair with Hare; the marriage to David Hare took place in 1946.

From 1943 to 1947 the gallery owner and art collector Peggy Guggenheim showed works by Jackson Pollock , Hans Hofmann , William Baziotes , Mark Rothko , Robert Motherwell , Clyfford Still and others in addition to Hare's works in her gallery Art of This Century .

In 1948, Hare was a founding member of "The Subjects of the Artist School" in New York, together with Baziotes, Motherwell and Rothko. That year he traveled to Paris and met Balthus , Victor Brauner , Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso there . In 1953 he returned to New York, but again spent the next two summers in Paris.

In the late 1950s, Hare turned to painting, his mythological motifs corresponded to the direction of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, which he maintained later when other art forms had developed. David Hare taught at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore , which made him an honorary doctorate in 1969, and at the New York Studio School.

Hare's first three marriages ended in divorce. In 1991 he married Therry Frey, his fourth marriage. A little later he died of complications from an aneurysm .

David Hare's works are exhibited in many well-known museums.

Literature (selection)

Catalogs with David Hare's participation

  • Reuniting an Era abstract expressionists of the 1950s, Exhibition: Nov. 12, 2004-Jan. 25, 2005, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
  • Marika Herskovic: American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. An Illustrated Survey . New York School Press, 2003, ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
  • The Third Dimension Sculpture of the New York School, by Lisa Phillips, Exhibition circ .: December 6, 1984-March 3, 1985 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ISBN 0-87427-002-2

Secondary literature

  • The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1918-1989 . Incorporating the serial exhibitions of The Whitney Studio Club, 1918-1928; The Whitney Studio Club Galleries, 1928-1930; The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1932–1989, ed. By Peter Falk, Sound View Press 1991, ISBN 0-932087-12-4
  • New York Cultural Capital of the World 1940-1965 ed. Leonard Wallock, Rizzoli, New York 1988, ISBN 0-8478-0990-0
  • American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970 by Wayne Andersen, New York Graphic Society Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company Publisher 1975, ISBN 0-316-03681-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Hare: Pueblo Indians of New Mexico as They Are Today . Foreword by Clark Wissler. 20 color photographs.
  2. ↑ Quoted from the Guggenheim Collection web link
  3. ↑ Quoted from Weblink New York Times
  4. ↑ Quoted from Weblink New York Times
  5. ^ Biography Jacqueline Lamba, accessed August 5, 2010 ( Memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Thomas M. Messer, in: Bernd Klüser, Katharina Hegewisch (ed.): The art of exhibition. A documentation of thirty exemplary art exhibitions of this century , p. 108
  7. ↑ Quoted from the Guggenheim Collection web link
  8. ↑ Quoted from Weblink New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Hare, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, sculptor, photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1992
Place of death Jackson , Wyoming