What is Hans Hoffman?
{{Infobox artist | name = Hans Hofmann | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1880|3|21}} | birth_place = [[Weißenburg in Bayern|Weißenburg]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1966|2|17|1880|3|21}} | death_place = New York City | nationality = German-American | field = [[Painting]] | movement = Abstract Expressionism | image = | image_size = 180 }} '''Hans Hofmann''' (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a [[Germany|German-born American]] [[painter]]. Hofmann was born in [[Weissenburg, Bavaria]], in 1880. He started to study art around 1898. He moved to [[Paris]] in 1905.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1880 — 1899|url=http://www.hanshofmann.org/1880-1899|access-date=2023-03-04|website=HANS HOFMANN|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1900 — 1909|url=http://www.hanshofmann.org/1900-1909|access-date=2023-03-04|website=HANS HOFMANN|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1910 the Paul Cassirer Galerie in [[Berlin]] shows his paintings together with paintings by [[Oskar Kokoschka]]. In 1914 he and his partner, Maria Wolfegg, had to stay in Germany as [[World War I]] began. They lived in [[Munich]]. He soon started an art school and was able to avoid serving in the [[military]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1910 — 1919|url=http://www.hanshofmann.org/1910-1919|access-date=2023-03-04|website=HANS HOFMANN|language=en-US}}</ref> Hofmann went to the [[U. S. A.]] in 1930 to teach painting at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]] during the summer. He did this for two more summers. In 1932 he decided to stay in America. He moved to [[New York City]] and went on teaching painting. One of his students was artist [[Lee Krasner]]. She introduced him to painter [[Jackson Pollock]] and art critic [[Clement Greenberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1930 — 1939|url=http://www.hanshofmann.org/1930-1939|access-date=2023-03-04|website=HANS HOFMANN|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1941