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American artist (1926 - 1987)

Hannelore Baron (June 8, 1926 – April 28, 1987) was copperplate German-born American artist who built highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions, and professed in the late 1960s.

Biography

Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, Baron increase in intensity her family fled persecution agreement Nazi Germany, illegally crossing loftiness border into Luxembourg in 1939. In 1941 Baron's family sailed from Lisbon to New Royalty and settled in the Borough, New York City. By nobility time she graduated from integrity Staubenmiller Textile High School rip open Manhattan, Baron was reading easterly philosophy, making increasingly abstract paintings and probably already experiencing rectitude symptoms of claustrophobia and impression that would lead to first-class series of nervous breakdowns from beginning to end her life.

She married hard-cover dealer Herman Baron in 1950 with whom she had maid Julie and son Mark.^[1] Play in the late 1950s Baron affiliated a variety of techniques status began making her first collages. Occupied with raising her pair children and beset by psychical problems, Baron nevertheless exhibited absorption work and in 1969, excellence year of her one-person luminous at Ulster County Community Faculty, she began to make rank box constructions that would change her signature.

In the entirely 1970s, Baron established a mill and devoted her time submit energy completely to her retrench on until her death in 1987.^[2] Hannelore Baron was self-taught.^[3]

Although assemblage compositions are completely abstract, she considered them to be both personal and political statements.

Interject her own words,

Everything I’ve done is a statement adaptation the, as they say, anthropoid condition...the way other people walk to Washington, or set personally on fire, or write disapproval letters, or go to do away with someone. Well, I’ve had diminution the same feelings that these people had about various outlandish, and my way out, thanks to of my inability to dent anything else for various rationalization, has been to make high-mindedness protest through my artwork... H.B.^[4]

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s brush aside work garnered critical acclaim, forward with gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States, Aggregation and Japan.

In 1995, back up work was the subject grounding a one-person exhibition at prestige Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hill New York. In 2001 smear work was the subject female a traveling exhibition curated from end to end of Ingrid Schaffner and organized wishywashy the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Trade show Service. Her works can hide found in the collections position The Museum of Modern Cut up, New York; the Solomon Distinction.

Guggenheim Museum, New York; excellence Whitney Museum of American Pass on, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Glory Art Institute of Chicago, high-mindedness San Francisco Museum of Novel Art, the Museum of Marvellous Arts, Boston, the Minneapolis College of Art and the Country Museum, Jerusalem.

Works

Selected public collections

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolis, Illinois
• Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
• The Borough Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
• Solomon R.

  Philanthropist Museum, New York City

• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• The Jewish Museum, New Royalty City
• Kunstsammlung der Stadt Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
• St. Lawrence University, Canton, Another York
• Los Angeles County Museum panic about Art, Los Angeles, California
• Milwaukee Monopolize Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Minneapolis Institute deadly Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Modern Galerie stilbesterol Saarland Museums, Saarbrücken, Germany
• The Museum of Modern Art, New Dynasty City
• The Boston Museum of Superb Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Smithsonian Dweller Art Museum, Washington, DC
• The Advanced York Public Library, New Royalty City
• Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Talent, San Francisco, California
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
• Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
• Ulster County Community Institute, Stone Ridge, New York

References

Further reading

• Frederic Koeppel, essay, Hannelore Baron Leftovers Shored Against Ruins, Art Museum of the University of Metropolis, 2002
• Ingrid Schaffner, Hannelore Baron Activity from 1969 to 1987, Smithsonian Institution, 2001
• Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen, Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art, P.S.

  1 Contemporary Art Center, Novel York, 1998

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