Hannelore Alexander (Baron)
Vita
(LEA) Baron, Hannelore geb. Alexander; geb. am 08.06.1926 in Dillingen; 1939 nach Frankreich und später Luxemburg ausgewandert, 1940 in die USA emigriert
Hausfrau
Wohnort als Antragsteller New York/ USA
(LEA) 8739: 1939 bei Fremden untergebracht, da Eltern in Dachau bzw. im Gefängnis, Emigration nach Luxemburg, 1941 Emigration in die USA
(W) Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, Baron and her family fled persecution in Nazi Germany, illegally crossing the border into Luxembourg in 1939. In 1941 Baron's family sailed from Lisbon to New York and settled in the Bronx, New York City. By the time she graduated from the Staubenmiller Textile High School in Manhattan, Baron was avidly reading eastern philosophy, making increasingly abstract paintings and probably already experiencing the symptoms of claustrophobia and depression that would lead to a series of nervous breakdowns throughout her life. She married book dealer Herman Baron in 1950 with whom she had daughter Julie and son Mark. In the late 1950s Baron combined a variety of techniques and began making her first collages. Occupied with raising her two children and beset by psychological problems, Baron nevertheless exhibited her work and in 1969, the year of her one-person exhibition at Ulster County Community College, she began to make the box constructions that would become her signature. In the early 1970s, Baron established a studio and devoted her time and energy completely to her artwork until her death in 1987. Hannelore Baron was self-taught.
Although her compositions are completely abstract, she considered them to be both personal and political statements. (...)
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s her work garnered critical acclaim, along with gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1995, her work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2001 her work was the subject of a traveling exhibition curated by Ingrid Schaffner and organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Her works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
(RS) Heirat 13 Apr 1950 New York City
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