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Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). <em>Untitled</em>, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)
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Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)
Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). <em>Untitled</em>, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)

Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)

Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). <em>Untitled</em>, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_bw.jpg)

Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_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.
This text refers to these objects: 88.43.3; 88.43.1; 88.43.2; 88.43.4; 88.43.5
ARTIST Hannelore Baron, American, 1926–1987
MEDIUM Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage
DATES 1985
DIMENSIONS 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm)  (show scale)
SIGNATURE "Hannelore Baron 2/1982" inscribed in black ink, center verso
INSCRIPTIONS Inscribed in grraphite center verso: "C 85 074"
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 88.43.3
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron
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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). Untitled, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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Hannelore Baron (American, 1926–1987). <em>Untitled</em>, 1985. Ink, watercolor, ballpoint pen and paper collage, 19 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (50.5 × 39.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Hannelore Baron, 88.43.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.43.3_PS9.jpg)

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