KARL KASTEN
Painter, Printmaker, Teacher, 1916-2010

"Hans Hofmann taught me to paint with vigor, to use my arm as well as my hand,
to use pigment as a an expressive material, that is, to consider the manner
in which color is applied - rapidly or slowly, in a thick or thin impasto."

AVAILABLE WORK
BIOGRAPHY

The artist who seems to have most successfully absorbed Hoffman's teachings was Kasten, who studied at Hoffman's school in Provincetown in the early 1950s.
- Susan Landauer, The San Francisco and the Second Wave, Crocker Art Museum

Education and Teaching
Attended California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; College of Marin, Kentfield, California; Univerisity of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939; University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1949; Hans Hofmann School of Art, 1951. Taught at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1941; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1946-1947; San Francisco State College, 1947-1950; University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1983; currently Professor Emeritus.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1955; San Jose Public Library, California, 1955; Sacramento State College, 1956; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1959; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France, 1959; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1962; Richmond Art Center, California, 1968; E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, 1969; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1975; Galerita, Milan, 1981; Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, 1995; Center for the Book and California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco, 1999; Galerie Sho, Tokyo, 2002; Robert Green Fine Art, Mill Valley, 2003.

Selected Group Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, 1946; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1952; Northwestern Printmakers, 1955, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1955; California Painters: 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, 1956; Library of Congress Print Annual, Washington D.C., 1956; University of Illinois, 1956; Denver Art Museum, 1958; Chicago Art Institute, 1960; University of California, Los Angeles, 1964; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1967; University of Illinois, 1969; International Print Exhibition, Grafica Uno, Taiwan, 1980; Il Bienal del Gradado de America, Venezuala, 1982; US-UK Print Connection, Concourse Gallery, London, 1989; Peintures et Graphics, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France, 1995; Stamp of Impulse, Worcester Art Museum, 2001; California Society of Printmakers, Works Gallery, San Jose, 2003; George Blair Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2004; Works on Paper, Leff Collection, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, 2005; Berkeley Treasures Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, 2006.