"Absolute Painting"
Discover the work of the German painter Will HALL, an explorer of "Absolute Painting".
Self-portrait by Will Hall, 1948, Oil on Cardboard, 38 x 34 cm (Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss)
Will Hall, a German painter born in 1897 and deceased in 1974, is known for his pursuit of:
"The Absolute Painting"
Education: at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, where he studied under Heinrich Nauen and Walter Kaesbach, alongside colleagues such as Otto Dix, Paul Klee, and Heinrich Campendonk.
Movement: his style encompasses naturalistic, abstract, expressionist, and surrealist painting.
"Abstract", 1943, Oil on Cardboard, 28 x 22 cm
2024: WILL HALL, 50th Anniversary of his passing
"Will Hall is absolutely not suited to the standard model. In any case, we prefer to see an absolute painting by Hall rather than by Klee or Kandinsky. Indeed, Hall is capable of introducing beauty into paintings of this kind, or as we called it earlier: a decorative expression." Franz Xaver Füsser, 1932
"In them lies the great hope of realization, as in some of Rodin's silent, stony, and independent hands." Hans Peter Keller
"The Flechtheim example: the young Düsseldorf gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim, a great collector of the modernity of the time, wanted to promote Hall on the condition that the latter exclusively produce abstract works. Responding to this demand was impossible for Will Hall; he did not want to be tied to a gallery owner in this manner. By his swift refusal, he pronounced his judgment with great regret." Katharina Hall-Krieger, 1991