Hans Hartung, painter and photographer of German origin, is one of the greatest representatives of abstract art of the 20th century.^E century.

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To the academicism of Parisian schools, Hartung prefers modern galleries. However, he did not exclude classical works and frequently went to the Louvre to immerse himself in the Old Masters. Naturalized French in 1946, he organized his first solo exhibition in 1947, which marked the beginning of his recognition as a leader in informal art and a precursor ofAction Painting.

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In the 1960s, Hartung tried industrial paints and created innovative textures by directly scraping the fresh material from his paints. The motif is no longer centered and confined within the frame of the painting but unfolds across the pictorial field, suggesting a captivating off-field.

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In 1973, Hartung built his own house in Antibes, which now houses the Hartung Bergman Foundation, a space dedicated to his work and that of his wife, the painter Anna-Eva Bergman. In 1975, he participated in the traveling exhibition Thirty creators alongside Pierre Alechinsky, Olivier Debré and Pierre Soulages. In 1996, the Tate Gallery in London devoted an exceptional exhibition to his works on paper. In 2019, it was the turn of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris to present the retrospective Hartung, the factory of gesture.