Franciska Clausen
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"Gegenstandslos" (meaningless)
Executed 1922. Collage on paper 33.5 c 24.5 cm.
Exhibitions
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen retrospektiv utstilling", 25 Januaru - 16 February 1964, cat 31.
Maison du Danemark, Paris, "Franciska Clausen", 27 April - 28 May, 1978, reproduced page 5.
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen", 8-30 September 1978, reproduced full page, page 5.
Orgaard Museum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921- 1931", 11 February - 12 June 2011.
Kunstmuseet Brundlund slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921- 1931", 25 June - 23 October 2011.
Literature
Troels Andersen & Gynther Hansen, "Franciska Clausen", 1974, reproduced full page page 29.
Sidsel Maria Söndergaard, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 2011, reproduced in colour page 64 and 267.
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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