Hans Hartung was a French-German artist. He studied first at the Leipzig University and left to study at the academies of Dresden, Leipzig and Munich and moved to Paris in the late 1920’s. He influenced many of the American abstract painters in the early 1960’s including Sam Francis among others. Collections of his work are held at the Tate Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Australia, Cambria and at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.