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Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1972. Fabric collage on cloth, 8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.1_PS9.jpg)
Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1972. Fabric collage on cloth, 8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.1_bw.jpg)
Untitled
Hannelore Baron
Contemporary Art
Hannelore Baron’s intimately scaled and collaged works on paper contain personal alphabets, evocative fabric scraps, and unsettled abstract forms that point to themes of suffering and hope. At age 12, Baron witnessed Nazis destroy her home and beat her father during the 1938 Kristallnacht attack against Jewish communities across Germany. These traumatic memories informed her hermetic practice decades later—seen in red splotches of paint, graphic suggestions of barbed wire, and fabric allusions to flags and nationalism—which she developed primarily at the kitchen table in her family’s Bronx home. Living with depression, anxiety, and later cancer, Baron saw her work as a protest against war and injustice on a global scale.
MEDIUM
Fabric collage on cloth
DATES
1972
DIMENSIONS
8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower center in pencil: "Hannelore Baron"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed verso in graphite: "72/c 72004"
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
88.43.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1972. Fabric collage on cloth, 8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.1_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 88.43.1_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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