Franciska Clausen
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"Composition Néoplasticiste".
Signed FC and dated 1930. Gouache 19.5 x 16.5 cm.
Exhibitions
Mjällby Konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October 1994, cat No 43, reproduced full page in colour page 181.
Thielska galleriet, Stockholm, "Nordisk konst i 1920-talets avantgarde", 18 November 1995 - 21 January 1996.
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark 1997, cat No 67.
Göteborgs konstmuseum, "Moderne Kvinder- Kvinnlige maleri i Norden 1910-1930", 28 February - 27 May 2007, cat No 10, reproduced full page in colour page 46.
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn "Moderne Kvinder Kvinnlige maleri i Norden 1910-1930",28 October 2006 - 28 January 2007, cat No 10, reproduced full page in colour page 46.
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, "Moderne Kvinder- Kvinnlige maleri i Norden 1910-1930", 1 July - 7 October 2007, cat No 10, reproduced full page in colour page 46.
Thielska galleriet, Stockholm, cat No 20.
Orgaard Museeum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 February - 12 June 2011, reproduced page 277.
Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, "Absolut Avantgarde. Franciska Clausen 1921-31", 25 june - 23 october 2011 (reproduced in catalogue page 277).
Artist
Franciska Clausen (1899-1986) was a Danish painter who holds a unique position in Danish art due to her early adoption of radical European movements in the 1920s, which she unsuccessfully fought to promote upon her return to Denmark. As a student of Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko in Germany, she primarily connected with Russian Constructivism through her work with collages. Thanks to Léger, she initially followed Cubism and Purism in Paris, later transitioning to Neoplasticism. She became a staunch advocate of Mondrian and sought to expand the Mondrian schema.
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