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Hannelore Baron

1926

WA-00026091

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WikidataQ5649087

MoMA

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2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/344
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/hannelore-baron
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

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Why this artist matters now

Hannelore Baron was an American painter and assemblagist who worked with found materials, collage, and mixed media to create densely layered abstract compositions. Active from the postwar period onward, her work combined gestural mark-making with embedded objects and fragments, creating intricate surfaces that invited close, sustained looking. Baron developed a distinctive visual language that resisted easy categorization, oscillating between abstraction and representation while maintaining a rigorous formal sensibility.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (7)

Untitled

1986 · Monotype in brown and pen and brown and red ink, with printed fabric collage element, on ivory wove handmade paper, prepared with watercolor washes

17.6 × 17.5 cm (6 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1983 · Collage of color monotypes on a variety of cut and pasted wove papers, with monotype and pen and red ink on ivory wove handmade paper, prepared with watercolor washes

17.3 × 24.5 cm (6 13/16 × 9 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1981 · Monoprint

composition (irreg.): 4 3/4 x 2" (12 x 5.1 cm); sheet (irreg.): 6 1/4 x 5 3/16" (15.9 x 13.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1979 · Monoprint

composition (irreg.): 4 5/8 x 2 1/16" (11.8 x 5.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 6 7/8 x 3 3/4" (17.4 x 9.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1978 · Monoprint

composition (irreg.): 5 5/16 x 1 1/4" (13.5 x 3.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 7 x 5 1/2" (17.8 x 13.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1977 · Collage composed of watercolor, gouache, pen and brown, black and red ink, on a variety of cut wove paper and fabric elements, laid down on tan wove handmade paper

50 × 37.6 cm (19 11/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Untitled

1977 · Cut-and-pasted monoprints on cut-and-pasted fabrics, colored ink and stamped ink

5 x 10 1/4" (12.7 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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7 published of 11 catalogued · 9 with image

MoMA
4 publishedof 8 catalogued6 img
Art Institute Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art

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