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Birth
1886 (San Francisco, California)
Death
1957 (Monterey, California)
Lived/Active
California
Self portrait - Artist self-portrait
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Often Known For
coastal, marine genre, landscape
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Categories of Interest
Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
California Painters
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Armin Hansen's etchings and paintings of marines, coastal scenes, and the fishing industry of the Monterey Peninsula made him an important figure in American art. He is quoted: "Every move I have made and everything that I have done has always been to go back to the water and to the men who gave its romance. I love them all."
He received his first art instruction from his father, Herman Wendelborg Hansen, 1854 - 1924, the famous painter of the Old West and frontier life. The younger Hanse (showing 500 of 7608 characters). |
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