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Hannelore BaronWW-1977-078780

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.)

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Year: 1977
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 50 × 37.6 cm (19 11/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Hannelore Baron

Artist

Hannelore Baron

Painting

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.

Dillingen, Germany

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