From 1904 until 1914, the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), who was a friend of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, witnessed and absorbed the new art in Paris, the centre of European art. In 1932 he emigrated to the US and opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. This book tells his story.