Armin Hansen - Storm Birds

Armin Hansen (San Francisco, California, 1886 - Monterey, California, 1957), native of San Francisco, was a prominent American painter of the En plein air school, best known for his marine canvases. His father Hermann Hansen was also a famous artist of the American West. The younger Hansen studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and achieved international recognition of his scenes depicting man and the sea off the California northern coast. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in the year 1926.

After his studies in Germany, Armin Hansen taught at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1913 moved to paint in Monterey, a budding art colony of the era. In this period he utilised both painting and etching techniques in the style of Impressionism. He was a founder of the Carmel Art Association and became enamoured of creating marine scenes, particularly involving man's relationship with the sea.

[Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 127.2 cm]