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The Hofmann School moves to 52 West 9th Street, then to 52 West 8th Street in 1938. A planned “European Summer Session” (traveling to Paris, the Cote D’Azure, Italy and Capri) is called off after Hitler moves into Austria in the spring. Hofmann delivers a lecture series once a month at the school in the winter of 1938-39, attended by such figures as Arshile Gorky and the critic Clement Greenberg. |
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After “cleansing” German museums of 16,000 works of art, Hitler opens the exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) to condemn and defame Modernist artists. He proclaims, “Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.”. |
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Germany invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. |
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Miz Hofmann arrives in America. After a stay in New Orleans, she joins her husband in Provincetown. They spend five months each summer in Provincetown and the rest of the year in New York. |
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“Through a painting we can see the whole world” -Hans Hofmann, 1952 |
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