Armin C. Hansen, N.A. (1886-1957)
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Title:
"Idle Fisher Fleet"
Date:
c. 1912
Size:
10" x 12"
Medium:
Oil on panel
Signed:
Signed L.L.
Signed lower left: Armin Hansen N.A.
Titled and signed on reverse
Remnant of custom's label on reverse: Nieuport
When San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins Institute of Art was destroyed by the earthquake and fire in 1906, Hansen, at the urging of his father, traveled to Germany to study intending to return to California in two years – he stayed six. After two years of study with Carlos Grethe, Hansen left for Munich, Paris, and then Nieuwpoort, on the Belgian coast. There Hansen first became acquainted with seafaring culture in his early twenties. Based in Nieuwpoort, he immersed himself in maritime culture and spent four years as a crew member on a North Sea trawler.
Becoming a part of the fishing community in Nieuwpoort not only fulfilled a childhood dream for Hansen but was the catalyst for his maritime body of work—
Upon returning to his hometown of San Francisco in 1912, Hansen began to build his career. He brought back with him about one hundred completed canvases. Hansen held a triumphant one-man show at Helgesen’s Gallery. An art critic noted: He returns an artist with a style that is solidly established, and his work so reflects the newer impulses in art that his present exhibition should command the attention of everyone interested in painting.
Titled and signed on reverse
Remnant of custom's label on reverse: Nieuport
When San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins Institute of Art was destroyed by the earthquake and fire in 1906, Hansen, at the urging of his father, traveled to Germany to study intending to return to California in two years – he stayed six. After two years of study with Carlos Grethe, Hansen left for Munich, Paris, and then Nieuwpoort, on the Belgian coast. There Hansen first became acquainted with seafaring culture in his early twenties. Based in Nieuwpoort, he immersed himself in maritime culture and spent four years as a crew member on a North Sea trawler.
Becoming a part of the fishing community in Nieuwpoort not only fulfilled a childhood dream for Hansen but was the catalyst for his maritime body of work—
Upon returning to his hometown of San Francisco in 1912, Hansen began to build his career. He brought back with him about one hundred completed canvases. Hansen held a triumphant one-man show at Helgesen’s Gallery. An art critic noted: He returns an artist with a style that is solidly established, and his work so reflects the newer impulses in art that his present exhibition should command the attention of everyone interested in painting.
