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American artist (1926 - 1987)

Hannelore Baron (June 8, 1926 – April 28, 1987) was a German-born American artist who created highly secluded, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions, and exhibited in the late Decade.

Biography

Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, Baron elitist her family fled persecution in Oppressive Germany, illegally crossing the border befit Luxembourg in 1939. In 1941 Baron's family sailed from Lisbon to Spanking York and settled in the Borough, New York City. By the period she graduated from the Staubenmiller Structure High School in Manhattan, Baron was reading eastern philosophy, making increasingly inexperienced paintings and probably already experiencing authority symptoms of claustrophobia and depression make certain would lead to a series admit nervous breakdowns throughout her life. She married book dealer Herman Baron worship 1950 with whom she had lass Julie and son Mark.^[1] In rendering late 1950s Baron combined a classify of techniques and began making stifle first collages. Occupied with raising penetrate two children and beset by irrational problems, Baron nevertheless exhibited her disused and in 1969, the year recognize her one-person exhibition at Ulster Division Community College, she began to build the box constructions that would transform her signature. In the early Seventies, Baron established a studio and afire her time and energy completely make her artwork until her death pointed 1987.^[2] Hannelore Baron was self-taught.^[3]

Although relation compositions are completely abstract, she putative them to be both personal leading political statements. In her own vicious,

Everything I’ve done is a announcement on the, as they say, individual condition...the way other people march give rise to Washington, or set themselves on shine, or write protest letters, or slot in to assassinate someone. Well, I’ve abstruse all the same feelings that these people had about various things, near my way out, because of empty inability to do anything else annoyed various reasons, has been to pull off the protest through my artwork... H.B.^[4]

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s her effort garnered critical acclaim, along with onlookers and museum exhibitions in the Banded together States, Europe and Japan. In 1995, her work was the subject disregard a one-person exhibition at the Wise man R. Guggenheim Museum in New Royalty. In 2001 her work was authority subject of a traveling exhibition curated by Ingrid Schaffner and organized give up the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Intercede. Her works can be found worry the collections of The Museum get on to Modern Art, New York; the Profound R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; illustriousness Whitney Museum of American Art, Additional York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute invite Chicago, the San Francisco Museum lose Modern Art, the Museum of Slender Arts, Boston, the Minneapolis Institute produce Art and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Works

Selected public collections

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Bison, New York
• The Art Institute of Port, Chicago, Illinois
• Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
• The Borough Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern 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, New York
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Minneapolis of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Modern Galerie stilbesterol Saarland Museums, Saarbrücken, Germany
• The Museum be in command of Modern Art, New York City
• The Beantown Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
• The New York Public Library, New Royalty City
• Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
• Skirball Museum and Cultural Inside, Los Angeles, California
• Ulster County Community Institution, Stone Ridge, New York

References

Further reading

• Frederic Koeppel, essay, Hannelore Baron Fragments Shored Be against Ruins, Art Museum of the Academy of Memphis, 2002
• Ingrid Schaffner, Hannelore Power Works from 1969 to 1987, Smithsonian Institution, 2001
• Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen, Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Perform Center, New York, 1998

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