Hans-Joachim Staude (1904-1973) is one of the most interesting (and in some ways most “eccentric”) German painters of his generation.
Yet his oeuvre is still not sufficiently known, especially in Italy where he lived and worked almost his entire life in the city of Florence. What is lacking is a more detailed critical analysis of his close relation with Italian Novecento painting, from Ardengo Soffici to Felice Carena, in the context of modern classicism in European art between the wars. A connection that makes the artist one of the “most Italian” of 20th-century German painters.