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Hans Platschek “Figure” Tempera on paper 50 x 33 cm.
Probably circa 1950-53. Signed “Platschek” in black paint with a brush lower right, titled upper right. With a restless, impasto brushstroke, Platschek vividly models differentiated, often sculpturally articulated structures on paper, which he then incises, paints over, and shapes with the handle of the brush. Hans Platschek, one of the protagonists of Art Informel, a painter, art critic, and writer, emigrated to Uruguay with his parents in 1939 and studied at the art school in Montevideo. There he developed his early abstract visual language with black lines on a painterly ground. In 1953 he returned to Europe and lived in Rome, London, Munich, and Paris, among other places; there Platschek met Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, and Asger Jorn. He had his first solo exhibition at the van de Loo Gallery in Munich in 1957. He himself saw his stylistic diversity as only an apparent contradiction and, like Francis Picabia, believed that an artist must traverse styles like a nomad crosses countries and cities. – Artist or Maker
Hans Platschek