Hans Hartung’s extensive career precludes a comprehensive list of exhibitions in which his work has featured in some way. Below is a selective list of the more significant exhibitions.

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Hans Hartung: Revenge, Perrotin, New York

2022

Hans Hartung, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Hans Hartung: Painter. Photographer, Waddington Custot, London

2021

Hans Hartung - Hartung 80, Perrotin, Paris

Rothko-Hartung: une amitié multiforme, Perrotin, Paris

 

2019

Hans Hartung, Galerie Fleury, Paris

Hans Hartung, Mazzoleni, Turin

Hans Hartung and Art Informel, Mazzoleni, London

Hans Hartung: La fabrique du geste, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Hans Hartung, Perrotin, Shanghai

Hans Hartung, Galerie Fleury, Paris

Hans Hartung, les années de guerre, Musée Zervos, Vézelay

Hans Hartung: Malerei als Experiment –Werke von 1962-1989, Kunstmuseum Bonn

Hans Hartung, Simon Lee Gallery, London

Hans Hartung. A Constant Storm. Works from 1922 to 1989, Perrotin, New York

Hans Hartung, Nahmad Contemporary, New York

 

2017

Abstraction: A Human Language, De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong

Hans Hartung. In An Alternate Reality, Setareh Gallery, Dusseldorf

Hans Hartung. Polittici, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia

Hans Hartung, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

Hans Hartung, the 60’s, Galleria Dellupi, Milan

 

2016

Hartung et les peintres lyriques, Fondation Leclerc, Landerneau

Beau Geste: Hans Hartung, Painter and Legionnaire, Museum of the Foreign Legion and Art Center Les Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne

Hans Hartung and Photography, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen

 

2015

Hans Hartung, A tribute to Daniel Cordier / Collection Fondation

Hartung-Bergman, Espace Miramar, Cannes

 

2014

Hans Hartung: L’Atelier du Geste, CCBB, Sao Paulo

 

2013

Hans Hartung: The Roots of Signs: Graphic Works, Roma Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Polo, Rome

 

2012

Hans Hartung: Fait le 29.7.89 – Bilder eines Tages, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

 

2011

Hartung: Prints, Musée de Vannes ; Villa Giulia, Verbania

Hartung: Prints, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva

Hans Hartung: The Final Years 1980-1989, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

2010

Hans Hartung: The last paintings, Cheim & Read, New York

Hans Hartung: Prints, Museum of Prints and Drawings, National Museum of Berlin, Germany; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, Geneva

 

2009

Hans Hartung, The Ultimate Work, Caserma Cosenz, Gaeta

 

2008

Hans Hartung: The Gesture and the Method, Fondation Marguerite and Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paulde-Vence

Hans Hartung: Essential, Circula de Bellas Artes, Madrid

 

2007

Hans Hartung: Spontaneous Calculus, Pictures, Photographs, Film 1922-1989, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany; Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel

 

2005

Hartung in China, Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; National Museum, Nankin

 

2004

Hans Hartung, Space and Gesture, San Stefano, Mondovi

Hans Hartung: Conceptualism Before the Letter, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

Hans Hartung: Works on Paper, 1922-1938, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

2003

Hans Hartung, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Belfort, France; Musée du Château des Ducs de Würtemberg, Montbéliard

 

2000

Hans Hartung, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin

 

1999

Hans Hartung, Works on Paper 1922-1985, Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, Berlin

 

1998

Hans Hartung, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya

 

1996

Hans Hartung: Works on Paper, 1922-1956, Tate Britain, London

Hartung, Modern Painter, Le Capitou - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fréjus

 

1992

Hans Hartung: Extreme Artworks 1922 – 1989, Musée de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France; Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg

 

1989

Hans Hartung: First Abstract Research, 1922-1938, Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar

Hartung: Paintings 1988, Galerie Sapone, Nice

 

1988

Hans Hartung: Recent Works, 1986-1987-1988, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne

Hans Hartung, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Ferrara

 

1987

Hans Hartung: First Paintings, 1922-1949, Musée Picasso, Antibes

 

1985

Hans Hartung: Grands formats 1971-1984, l’hôtel de ville de Paris, Paris

 

1984

Hans Hartung 80th Birthday Paintings and Lithographs 1964-1984, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich

Hans Hartung 1971-1983, Noroit, Arras

 

1983

Hans Hartung: Graphic, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen, Berlin; Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Hartung: Paintings 1980-1983, Galerie Sapone, Nice

 

1981

Hans Hartung: Paintings, Drawings, Photography, Steddtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich,

Hans Hartung: A Vision into Abstraction 1923-1964, Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, UK; PelsLeusden, Berlin

 

1980

Hartung: Works from 1922 – 1939, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris

Hans Hartung, Photographs by Hans Hartung, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France; Galerie Municipale du Château-d'eau, Toulouse

 

1979

Hans Hartung: Paintings and Works on Paper 1976-1977, Galerie de France, Paris

Hans Hartung, Musée Picasso, Antibes

 

1978

Hans Hartung, Fondation Veronneman, Kruishoutem, Emka

Hans Hartung: Works on Paper Retrospective 1922-1978, Musee de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables-d’Olonne

Hans Hartung: Paintings and Graphics, Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen

 

1977

Hartung, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

 

1975

Hans Hartung: Paintings 1971-1975, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

1974

Hans Hartung: Works from Five Decades, Wallraf-Richortz-Museum, Cologne; National Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Hans Hartung: 1971-1974, Galerie de France, Paris

Hans Hartung: Graphics from Erker-Presse 1973, Erker-Galerie, Saint-Gallen

 

1972

Hans Hartung, Städtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Siegen

 

1971

Hans Hartung: 1971, Galerie de France, Paris

Hartung: Large Formats 1961-1971, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Saint-Paul

 

1969

Hans Hartung: Pictures, Pastels, Graphics, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick

Hans Hartung, Musée national d’art modern de Paris, Paris, France. This exhibition travelled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US; Musée du Québec, Québec, Canada and Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Hartung, Tàpies, Johns, Hoza: The VIII International Graphics Exhibition in Ljubljana, Galerie Nationale, Prague

 

1968

Hans Hartung: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham

Hartung, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

 

1967

Hartung, Galleria d'Arte Narciso, Turin

1966

Hartung, Recent Lithographs, Galerie La Hune, Paris

Hans Hartung, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin

 

1965

Hans Hartung: Small Prints, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich

 

1963

Hartung, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Hans Hartung, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna

Hans Hartung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

Hans Hartung, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf

Hans Hartung, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich

Hans Hartung, Erker-Galerie, Gallusplatz, Saint Gallen

 

1962

Fifty New Works by Hans Hartung, Galerie de France, Paris

 

1961

Hans Hartung, Oeuvres de 1920 -1939, Galerie de France, Paris

 

1960

Hans Hartung, Gimpel Fils, London, UK Hans Hartung, Galerie de France, Paris

 

1959

Hans Hartung: Pastels , Kleemann Galleries, New York, NY

Hans Hartung: Rubens Prize of Siegen, Rathaus, Siegen

Hans Hartung: Exhibition, Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, Germany

 

1957

Hans Hartung, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover; Württembergische Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; KoInischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg

Hans Hartung: Paintings, Kleemann Galeries, New York, NY

 

1954

Hartung, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

 

1953

Paintings by Hans Hartung, Lefevre Gallery, London

 

1949

Hans Hartung, Abstractions, The Hanover Gallery, London

 

1947

Hans Hartung, Galerie Lydia Conti, Paris

 

1931

Hans Hartung, Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Rothko - Hartung, A Multiform Friendship, Perrotin, Paris

2020

Our Present, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen

Splash of Color, Bailly Gallery, Geneva

Degree Zero: Drawing at Mid Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

2019

From Gesture to Form: Postwar European and American Art from the Schulhof Collection, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

 

2017

Le Geste et la Matière, une Abstraction 'Autre', Fondation Clément, Le François, Martinique Uninhibited Vision, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Taipei

 

2016

Vibration of Space: Heron, de Stael, Hartung, Soulages, Waddington Custot, London

 

2015

Sprayed, Gagosian Gallery, London

 

Sensations de Nature: De Courbet à Hartung, Musée Courbet, Ornans

 

2014

L’Art Informel à Paris: Hans Hartung, Lee Ungno, Zao Wou-Ki, Pierre Soulages, Lee Ungno Museum, Daejeon, B / W, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Les désastres de la guerre 1800-2014, Louvre-Lens, Lens, France Face à l’oeuvre, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

 

2013

Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Noirs d’encre. Regards croisés, Fondation Baur, Geneva

At the Nexus of Painting and Writing, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul

 

2012

Dialogue Kirili-Hartung, Musée Picasso, Antibes,

 

2013

I went, Musée Guimet, Paris, France Traits d’Union, Musée Boucher-de-Perthes, Abbeville

 

2011

Regard sur l’abstraction lyrique, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, France La couleur en avant, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nice

La peinture autrement, Musée Fernand Léger, Biot

Painterly Abstraction: 1949-196 9: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao

 

2009

Deadline: Martin Kippenberger, Absalon, Hans Hartung, James Lee Byars, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joan Mitchell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chen Zhen, Gilles Aillaud, Willem de Kooning, Hannah Villiger, Jiirg lmmendorff, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

 

1985

Fabian, Bergman, Hartung: peintures et tapisseries, Musée Picasso, Antibes

 

1981

Hartung, Bergman, Bret, Clavé, Farhi, Guitet, Helion, Kijno, Laude, Lipszyc, Pignon, Prassinos, Soulages, Zao Wou-Ki, Cloître Saint-Louis, Aix-en-Provence, France; Présence Contemporaine, Puyricard, Paris

 

1980

Hans Hartung, Anna-Eva Bergman: Tapestries and Woodcuts, Musée de la Poste, Paris

 

1970

Expo’70, Museum of Fine Arts of Osaka, Osaka

 

1966

10 années d’art vivant 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

 

1964

Documenta 3, Kassel, Germany

54-64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London

 

1960

Venice Biennale (French Pavilion), Venice

 

1959

Documenta 2, Kassel

 

1958

Léger - Matisse - Picasso - Miro - Laurens- Magnelli - Arp - Hartung -Jacobsen, Musée de l'Art wallon, Liège

 

1956

Abstract Painter: Bazaine, Bertholle, Bissière, Eble, Estève, Hartung, Jan, Lanskoy, Louttre, Manessier, Le Moal, Nallar, Palazuelo, Vieira da Silva, Singier, Spiller, de Staël, Ubac, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

 

1955

Documenta 1, Kassel

 

1954

Current trends at the school of Paris: Hartung et al, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

 

1952

Walter Bodmer, Basel. Hans Hartung, Paris, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

 

1951

Hans Hartung, Fritz Winter, Das Amerika-Haus, Erlangen

 

1938

Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London

 

1937

Origins and Developments of Independent International Art, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris

 

1936

Recent Works by: Arp, Ferren, Giacometti, Hartung, Hélion, Kandinsky, Nelson, Paalen, Tauber-Arp, La Galerie Pierre, Paris

 

1931

Painting, Watercolours and Drawings, Galerie Heinrich Kühl, Dresden