Franciska Clausen
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"Contre-Composition" (Composition Neoplasticiste) (Hommage a Mondrian)
Signed FC. Executed in Paris 1928-29. Gouache 22 x 17.5 cm.
Provenance
Previously in the artist Oscar Reutersvärd's collection, Lund, Sweden.
Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Galleri Samlaren, Stockholm, "Neoplastisism", september 1951, cat No 7.
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen - Retrospektiv utställning", 25 January - 16 February 1964, cat No 72.
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen", 8 - 20 September 1978, reproduced full page, page 21.
Maison du Danemark, Paris, "Franciska Clausen", 27 April - 28 May 1978, reproduced full page, page 23.
Fyns Kunstmuseum, Odense, "Franciska Clausen", 1978.
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen", 8 - 30 September 1978, reproduced page 21.
Skive Museum, "Franciska Clausen", 1978
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "De danske", 1984, cat No 35, page 116, 130.
Malmö Konsthall, "De danske", 1985, cat No 35.
Mjällby Konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October 1994, cat No 401 reproduced full page in colour page 177.
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, "Franciska Clausen - Retrospektiv", 1 March - 21 April 1996, cat No 63, reproduced full page in colour page 22.
Orgaard Museum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921- 1931", 11 february - 12 june 2011, reproduced in catalog page 277.
Kunstmuseet Brundlund slot, " Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921- 1931", 25 june - 23 october 2011, reproduced in catalog page 277.
Literature
Troels Andersen & Gynther Hansen, "Franciska Clausen", 1974, reproduced full page, page 81. (the image reverse)
Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - I de kolde skuldres land 1932-1986", 1987, page 108.
Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - Udlandsåren 1899-1931", 1987, mentioned page 107.
Lea Virgine, "Andra hälften av avantgardet 1910-40", 1981, page 160.
More information
Franciska Clausen arbetade tillsammans med Piet Mondrian 1929-30. Många av hennes kompositioner från de åren är starkt påverkade av den holländske "de stijl-konstnärens" enkla neoplasticism. Några gouacher från denna tid är en hyllning till Mondrian och ett uttryck för hennes stora beundran för konstnären.
Utförd som serigrafi ca 1980. Serigrafin utfördes som bilaga till en bibliofil-upplaga på 199 ex av Oscar Reutersvärds bok om Otto G Carlsund som gavs ut 1988.
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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