Franciska Clausen
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"Vasen och piporna" (The vase and the pipes)
Signed F C and dated 1928. Gouache 25.5 x 20 cm.
Exhibitions
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen - Retrospektiv utställning", 25 January - 16 February 1964", cat No 74.
Clausen Randers Kunstmuseum, "Mödested Paris", 17 February - 17 May 1984, cat No 113, reproduced page 33, mentioned page 30, 49.
Kunsthallen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen", 1985, cat No 49.
Mjällby Konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October 1994, cat No 40, reproduced fullpage in colour page 144.
Oregaard Museum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 febraury - 12 june 2011, reproduced in catalog page 276.
Kunstmuseet Brundlund slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 25 june - 23 october 2011, reproduced in catalog page 276.
Literature
Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - Udlandsåren 1899-1931", 1987, reproduced page 99, mentioned page 100.
Bente Scavenius, "At laese billeder", 1989/90, page 94-95.
Barometern, article "Kvinnliga Modernister", 22 april 2012, reproduced in colour page 3.
More information
Executed in oil 1929 (Canvas 30 x 23 cm)
Designer
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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