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Hannes Beckmann Biography
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1909 |
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Born October 8th in Stuttgart, Germany
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1928 - 1932 |
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Studied at Bauhuas, Dessau, Germany
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1932 - 1934 |
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Studied photography at Grapische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna
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1948 |
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Came to New York, NY
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1948 |
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Became the first director of the Photographic Department at the Guggenheim Museum (Museum of Non - Objective Art)
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1952 |
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Taught Color and Design at the Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY
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1960 - 1961 |
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Visiting critic, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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1970 - 1975 |
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Taught at Dartmouth College, Visual Studies Program
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1977 - 1978
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Geothe Institutte Touring Exhibition - Atlanta, Worcester, Burlington, Boston, Montreal, Toronto and New York City (solo)
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1977
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Ava Gallery, Hanover, NH (solo)
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1976
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Nashua Arts and Science Center, Nashua, NH (solo)
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1976
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Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA (solo)
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1976
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Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (solo)
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1975
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Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo)
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1973
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Jacob H. Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo)
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1973
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A Retrospective of Selected Artists in Residence, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College and the New City Hall Exhibition Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
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1971
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Concepts of the Bauhaus: The Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard, University, Cabmridge, MA
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1970
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The Studio Museum in Harlem. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
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1970
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Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo)
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1967 - 1970
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Fifty Years Bauhaus, Wurttembergischer, Kunstverein, Stuttgart (also London, Amsterdam, Paris, Chicago, Pasadena, Buenos Aires, Tokyo)
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1969
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Art For Study: The Modern Tradition, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
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1969
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The Square in Painting, American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition
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1968
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Visitors' Forum, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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1966
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Art for the United States Embassies, Art in Embassies Program, State Department Traveling Exhibition
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1965
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Retinal Painting, University of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
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1965
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The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (also, The City Art Museum of St. Louis, Seattle Art Musesum, Pasadena Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art)
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1965
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Color Dynamism, Then and Now, East Hampton Gallery, New York, New York
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1963
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New England Painters, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
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1963
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Science and Technology In Art, I.B.M. Gallery, New York, NY
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1963
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Color and Form, Castellane Gallery, New York, NY
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1963
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Art School Faculty Exhibition, Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York, NY
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1962
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Kanegis Gallery, Boston, MA (also '63, '64, '65, '66, '68, '74) (solo)
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1962
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American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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1961
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Logic and Magic of Color, Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York, NY
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1960
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Group Ten, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
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1958
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Lincoln Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
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1951
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Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York, NY
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1949
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European Painters (with Otto Nebel, Vordemberge-Gildewart and Lotti Konnerth), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York, NY (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany
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Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Darthmouth, MA
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De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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