Hartung-Bergman Foundation
The Fondation Hartung-Bergman is a foundation and the name of a small museum for contemporary art in Antibes , France. Works by the artist couple Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman are exhibited .
The foundation was established in 1994, four years after Hartung's death, with the aim of continuing the legacy in its spirit. The seat is in the residence with the studio of the artist couple in Antibes in the south of France. There are guest apartments for young scholarship holders who can study aspects of artistic creation here. The graphics of the estate are stored in the "Tresor", the villa's former living room. The property is characterized by the careful, careful and high-quality renovation of the architecture and the works in the interests of the donor couple.
History of the villa
After hardships, adventures and successes, the painter Hartung built this villa in southern France for living and working. At the beginning of the sixties the Hartungs acquired the two hectare area in order to build a house and two studios on it.
Hartung drew the plans and made a model. In his own words, he oriented himself towards the architecture of Menorca. " The ideal house for me is a white cube with clear lines, like the houses of the Spanish fishermen on the island of Menorca. The windows are my pictures". Through them an immobile landscape emerges, but with a constantly changing sky that shimmers through the silver leaves of the olive trees ".
Hartung lived in the house with his wife, the Norwegian painter and graphic artist Anna-Eva-Bergmann. The Fondation vividly documents his artistic work. B. with the five meter long acrylic painting in the studio with the title: " Energies that rule the universe ", created in 1989, the year of his death, or a painting with a few colored "spots" and sketchy black lines from 1936.
literature
- Alfred Werner Maurer : Architectural icons Côte d'Azur + Riviera, Hartung-Bergmann Foundation, Philologus Verlag Basel 2007;
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quote from his autoportrait autoportrait , 1976, Grasset publisher