An Exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Remembers Hannelore Baron
“Often, reviews of the late artist Hannelore Baron’s exhibitions mention that her family survived Kristallnacht, that a young Baron watched her father beaten and then she and her family fled Germany. Reviews also often mention the artist’s struggles with depression and her solitary existence,” writes Catherine G. Wagley in Kolaj #15. “That she was self-taught is another fact often mentioned, as a way to explain how that awareness didn’t necessarily translate to art historical savvy: Baron wasn’t participating in the Expressionistic zeitgeist.”
The recent show of Baron’s work at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, “Collage & Assemblage,” focused on collage she made in the decade before her death at age 61 in 1987. The show included a few delicate-looking fabric-on-fabric works from the late 1970s.
Catherine G. Wagley offers a look at this fascinating 20th century artist.
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“I lived in very limiting surroundings. I didn’t have anyone at all around me in the family, or anywhere, that was at all intellectual or at all knowledgeable about anything except the bare everyday existence. I somehow must have guessed or known that there was a whole other thing besides all of this everyday thing,” said Baron.
What distinguishes Baron most, and makes her an enigma: she didn’t seem to care a bit about pushing the limits, or staking her place in history.
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“Hannelore Baron: Collage & Assemblage” was presented 14 November-24 December 2015 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles, California, USA. www.jackrutbergfinearts.com