Hans Hartung (1904-1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. His paintings set influential precedents for many younger American painters of the 1960s, making him an important forerunner of American Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s.

Hartung was photographed on this day, March 26, in 1965. He was one of several artists photographed by Karsh on Karsh’s trip to Paris in March and April of ’65, including such luminaries as Man Ray, Joan Miro, Jean Paul Riopelle.

See another portrait of Hans Hartung.