After a soft opening in October Christian Hohmann Fine Art officially opened doors with a Grand Opening Celebration last Saturday, November 28th. Over 350 invited guests came to see the new quarters of ex-Hart Gallery director Hohmann. Among the guests were German actor Udo Kier, director of the Palm Springs Art Museum Steven Nash and his wife Carol, actor John Callahan with Kim Hayden, Palm Springs Life Magazine editor Steven Biller and the magazine’s fashion expert Susan Stein, public art coordinator of the city of Palm Desert Deborah Schwartz, Desert Magazine editor Carla Breer Howard, singer Sharon Di Haworth, TV host Gloria Greer with daughter Ann Greer, GM of the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, artist Neil Nagy, artist/writer Kimberly Nichols, CBS2 reporter Natalie Brand, GM of the Parker Hotel Thomas Meding and wife Alisa, Eva and Ed Hart, the owners of The Hart Gallery that Christian used to run as well as many collectors and patrons.
With champagne and appetizers the guests celebrated and viewed the work of late artist David Schneuer (1905-1988) who lived and worked in Paris and Munich in the 1920s and 30s and who escaped from Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in Tel Aviv. Hohmann is showing several original paintings and works on paper that were just recently released by the estate. This very collectable artist is currently shown at the Museum de Montparnasse in Paris (see separate news). If you missed the opening, you can still see the exhibition during art walk on Thursday, December 3rd from 5-9pm through December 12th 2009.
You can see all images and order prints at http://www.photosbylani.com/Events/Christian-Hohmann-Art-Gallery/
