Franciska Clausen
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"Éléments mécaniques"
Signed FC and dated 1929. Executed in Paris. Gouache 29.5 x 23.5 cm.
Exhibitions
Kunstföreningen, Köpenhamn, "Franciska Clausen - Retospektiv utställning", 25 January - 16 February, 1964, cat No 53.
Randers Konstmuseum, "Mödested Paris", 17 February - 17 May 1984.
Kunsthallen, Copenhagen, "Franciska Clausen", 1985, cat No 24, reproduced full page in colour page 15.
Mjällby Konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October 1994, cat No 38.
Thielska Galleriet, Stockhom, "Nordisk konst i 1920-talets avantgarde", 18 november 1995 - 21 january 1996.
Kunstmuseet Trapholm, Kolding, "Franciska Clausen - Retrospektiv", 1 march - 21 april 1996, cat No 31, reproduced in catalog full page in colour page 11.
Orgaard Museeum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 february - 12 june 2011, reproduced in catalog page 270.
Kunsmuseet Brundlund Slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 25 june - 23 october 2011, reproduced in catalog page 270.
Literature
Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - Udlandsåren 1899-1931", 1987, reproduced page 90, mentioned page 132.
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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