Franciska Clausen
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Constructivist model study
Signed F.C and dated 1925. Gouache 22.5 x 20 cm.
Exhibitions
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, "Franciska Clausen", 1964, cat No 33.
Randers Kunstmuseum, "Mödested Paris", 1984, cat No 30, reproduced in catalogue page 50, mentioned page 21, 22 and 47.
Kunsthallen, Copenhagen, 1985, cat No 15, reproduced and mentioned page 10.
Mjällby konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October, 1994, cat No 31.
Thielska Galleriet, "Nordisk konst i 1920-talets avantgarde" 18 November 1995 - 21 January 1996.
Oregaard Museum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 Febrruary - 12 June, 2011, reproduced in catalogue page 269.
Kunstmuseet Brundlunds Slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921 - 1931", 25 June - 23 October 2011, reproduced in catalogue page 269.
Literature
Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - Udlandsåren 1899-1931", 1987, reproduced page 72.
Sidsel Maria Söndergaar, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 2011, reproduced in colour page 269.
More information
Also executed in oil with the title "Fuldfort" 1963.
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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