Signed by the author; paperback, 189 pages,
includes 11 linoleum block print illustrations
now available for $17.95 (for US and Canada --includes shipping)
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About this book:
As the story emerges we see the painter shape himself and his work around the experience of his teacher Hans Hoffmann. Not only did Bob study with Hans and learn the basics of oil painting from the German master, but he followed his teachings very closely and some say that Bob’s work is the closest to Han’s work of all the many students that took part in the New York and later Provincetown painting classes.
In this account we also see that Robert Fisher followed the experience of his teacher long after Hans’s time on earth had expired and that he had a resonant experience, an echo of Hans’s own experience with Renata, who was Hans’s second wife. The old German/American painter married Renata at the end of his painting career and their experience together inspired Hans to paint his final magnificent series of images called the Renata Suite. Robert, thirty years later, experienced an epiphany when Renata died, under the most disturbing circumstances. Renata was homeless though she had the key to an expensive condo, friendless though she was well off. As a result of this shock, Robert transformed his own painting into his final series of images called the Street Angels. During his lifetime these would be the most successful of his paintings.
It so happened that Hans Hoffmann’s personal painter’s easel, a giant old wooden horse of a thing, migrated to Bob’s studio at this time too. Bob saw this shared easel as a cosmic affirmation that his painting was on the right path and that his teacher appreciated this final transformation in his work and supported him in his last effort to feel and perhaps to effect the suffering they both knew was at the heart of homelessness.
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