Hans-Joachim Staude

Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1904 – Florence 1973

Hans-Joachim Staude, Girl with guitar
Oil on cardboard, 90 x 74 cm
1929

Who is this painter?

Francesco Poli, Elena Pontiggia

Hans-Joachim Staude is one of the most interesting (and in some ways most “eccentric”) German painters of his generation. Yet his oeuvre is still not sufficiently known, especially in Italy where he lived and worked almost his entire life in the city of Florence. What is lacking is a more detailed critical analysis of his […]

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A look at the lighthouse of San Giorgio Maggiore
And at the venue of the event
At the Cini Foundation Pastel on paper, 1971

“Hans-Joachim Staude and the Art of the Italian Novecento”

Giorgio Cini Foundation
Venice, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore

Exhibition (18. – 22. November 2015)
and Scientific Conference (18. – 19. November 2015)

Curated by Francesco Poli and Elena Pontiggia

The artist has not yet been included in the recent revival of the Return to order, an art movement in which we can place Staude, albeit remaining independent and with his own specific approach. This surely implies a loss, not just in terms of an adequate recognition of the artist’s oeuvre, but also with regards […]

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Initiative in collaboration with :

The generous support of the following Institutions is gratefully acknowledged:
Consulate General of Germany, Milan
Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, Rudolf Augstein Foundation,
Martha Pulvermacher Foundation and Fondazione Zoé (Zambon Open Education)