HANNELORE BARON BIOGRAPHY [ Chronology | Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Bibliography | Catalogues | Public Collections ] Personal Chronology 1926 Hannelore Alexander born in Dillingen, Germany on 8 June to Julius and Friedel Alexander. The family lives at 9 Huttenwerkstrasse where her parents have a small fabric shop. 1928 Brother Hans is born. 1936 Jewish children were expelled from the local school, Hannelore and her brother attend a special Jewish school in Saarbrucken. 1938 9 November (Kristalnacht) German citizens, responding to a national campaign, formed vigilante groups and destroyed Jewish homes and shops. Baron witnessed the destruction of her home and the beating of her father with a hammer. The family, fearful of the mob’s return hid in their attic. Later the same night police took Hannelore's father into custody and he was later imprisoned in Dachau. At the suggestion of the local police Baron's mother with the two children joined other Jews to cross the border into France by foot on a designated night. The same police, waiting at the border, arrest the group and Baron's mother is jailed in Saarlouis. Baron and her brother are sent to stay with the one remaining Jewish family in Dillingen. Later Baron is allowed to re-enter the house with an S.S. officer to get a winter coat. The sight of the house with it's furniture destroyed and her father's bloody handprints on the walls is traumatic. Mid December both parents are released by showing fake Greek visas and promising a quick emigration. Baron and her brother are sent to stay with an Aunt in Luxembourg, their parents join them later. 1940 Hannelore completes primary school in Walferdange, Luxembourg. 1941 Family travels by bus to Paris, then by train to Lisbon. In June, family boards the ship Mouzinho in Lisbon to sail to New York. Upon arrival, the family lives with Baron's aunt and uncle in the Bronx. Her father works as a dish-washer, then a carpenter. Her mother works in an orphanage as a seamstress. Hannelore is enrolled in Straubenmuller Textile High School in New York. 1945 Graduates high school. She began painting in casein and oil paint, and making pencil drawings. She also becomes very interested in Chinese philosophy, Buddhism and Taoism for the next five years. 1946 Hannelore is employed by Hearn's department store. Beginning of her claustrophobia which leads to first nervous breakdown. 1947 Meets Herman T. Baron (who she will marry 3 years later). She began painting still life and landscape paintings, first abstract paintings. 1950 Marries Herman T. Baron on 16 April. He is the proprietor of a small bookshop in the Bronx. They move into an apartment nearby. 1952 Daughter Julie born. 1956 Son Mark born. Father dies. 1960 Begins to work with collage. 1962 Begins to receive reparation money from the German government. 1964 Begins to make collages with watercolor, found paper and ink. 1965 Became increasingly interested in Italian culture and eventually learns to speak Italian fluently. Immersed in Italian literature, music, movies, cooking, etc. She develops an interest in Catholicism and occasionally visits the local church to light candles for Saint Anthony who she considers her patron saint. 1968 Produces first wood assemblages. 1969 Produces large cloth collages (most of which were later destroyed), collages with crumpled paper. Exhibition at Ulster County Community College. 1970 Moves to house in Riverdale where Baron will live the rest of her life and where, in the attic, she establishes an art studio for the first time. 1972 Produces small collages with watercolor on canvas. Hudson River Museum purchases a work. 1973 First cancer operation (mastectomy) and beginning of third nervous breakdown. Solo exhibition at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. 1977 First of four solo exhibitions at Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY. 1978 Second cancer operation (removal of part of one lung) and began three years of chemotherapy. 1981 Solo exhibition at Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York. First solo exhibition at Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante where Baron would have ten exhibitions between 1981 and 1990. 1982 Solo exhibition in Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Saarbrucken, Germany. Third cancer operation (hysterectomy). Baron rejects her doctor’s suggestion of one year of chemotherapy and begins strict macrobiotic diet in an attempt to cure her cancer. 1984 Cancer returns and Baron ends macrobiotic diet and resumes chemotherapy. 1987 Dies of cancer in April. 1989 Retrospective Exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Solo Exhibitions: 2004 CSU Long Beach, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES) / Nine Venue Tour (catalogue) 2000 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles 1999 Nations Bank/Private Banking, Palm Beach, FL 1998 Meyerson/Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, WA Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 King St. Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary (brochure) ACA Gallery, Munich, Germany 1996 Farbklang Kulturverein, Dillingen, Germany Meyerson/Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle, WA 1995 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY 1991 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Fujii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (Retrospective Exhibition) 1988 Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY Galerie Lopes AG, Zurich, Switzerland 1987 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY (catalogue) Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC Solo Exhibitions - Continued 1986 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Galleri Zero, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue) Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Lopes, AG, Zurich, Switzerland 1985 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL 1984 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Kunsteverein, Galerie Im Rathaus, Dillingen, Saarland, Germany Galerie Domberger, "Art 15-84," Basel, Switzerland Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington, DC Kunsteverein, Galerie Im Rathaus, Dillingen, Saarland, Germany Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, "Art 14-83," Basel, Switzerland Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany Galerie Alvensleben, Munich, Germany 1982 Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland Saarland-Museums Moderne Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany (Retrospective Exhibition) Galerie Domberger, Reutlingen, Germany Rosenberg Fine Arts, Ltd., Toronto, Canada Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Albright-Knox Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1980 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1978 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1976 Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY 1973 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY 1969 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY Selected Group Exhibitions: 1998 Summer, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Small Treasures III, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 1997/98 Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung, (traveling exhibition) Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf Im Ehrenhof, Germany; PS1, Long Island City, New York; The Henry Art Center, Seattle, WASelected Group Exhibitions - Continued 1997 Works on Paper, Baron/Boisante, New York, NY Collage & Assemblage, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin, Loomis Chaffee School, West Stockbridge, MA (catalogue) Signs & Symbols, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture, Baron Boisanté, New York, NY Box, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY Picasso and Friends, Meyerson/Nowinsky Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1995 American Collage, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, NY Pasted Papers: Collage & the 20th Century, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, June - Sept Air-Conditioned Abstraction, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Summer Selections, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Works on Paper, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fractured Identity: Cut and Paste, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Werk auf Papier, Galerie Lopes AG, Zurich, Switzerland 1988 Poetic Object, San Antonio Museum, San Antonio; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas. 1987 Joseph Cornell and His Legacy, ACA Gallery, New York, NY Crime and Punishment, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, NY Collector's Choice, 1987, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi 1986 Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, (catalogue, p. 8-9) Collagen, Kunsthaus, Zug, Switzerland (catalogue) Collages, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL Small Format, Lang-O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY Paper Variations, Lever-Meyerson Gallery, New York, NY Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 1985 Collage, That State of the Art, Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ Dealer's Choice, Columbia Museum of Art and Science, Columbia, SC 1984 Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists, Willard Gallery, New York, NY Dealer's Choice, Columbia Museum of Art and Science, Columbia, SC Selected Group Exhibitions - Continued 1983 Galerie Gamma, Amsterdam, Holland Les Etats du Livre, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris; Contemporary Art Center, Rouen; Le Grand Palais, Paris, France Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany Internationaler Kunstmarket, Koln, Germany 1982 Small Sizes, Galerie La Cite, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Hannelore Baron and Paul Harnett Collages, Rosenberg Fine Arts Ltd., Toronto, Canada 1981 Sixty Years of Collage, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY Selections 81, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY Words and Images, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia; The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh; The Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, PA Women Artists, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY 1981 Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH Joyce Hunsacker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Sonoma State University, Tohnert Park, CA Artist's Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY Contemporary Collage, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France 1980 Artist's Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY Kathryn Markel in Albuquerque, Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1979 Formations on paper, Gallery Alexandra Monett, Brussels The Art of Collage Today, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA 1978 Collage 1978, Goddard Riverside Community Center, New York Contemporary Collages, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY New Acquisitions, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1975 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY Celebration: Women in the Arts, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY 1973 Atkinson, Baron, Fanto, Pollan, Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York, NY Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY 1971 A.M. Sacks Gallery, New York, NY 1970 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY 1959 A.C.A. Gallery, New York, NY 1958 Art Directions Gallery, New York, NY 1951 Creative Gallery, New York, NY Bibliography Anderson, Michael. “Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, 11-17 April 1986 Arnot. Denise. New Art Examiner, April 1983 Bannon, Anthony. “Box Exhibit Holds a Range of Emotions,” Buffalo Evening News, Section I, p. 13, 2 February 1981 Brenson, Michael. “Two Artists Tempered in the Crucible of War,” The New York Times Section 2, p. 37, p. 43, 29 November 1987 Brenson, Michael, The New York Times, 3 August 1986 Brenson, Michael. “Hannelore Baron's Collages,” The New York Times, 2 June 1989 Brown, Betty Ann. “Dark Prophecies,” Artweek, Vol. 17, No. 13, 5 April 1986 B.R.U. “Lebenszeichen Aux der Eimgration,” Reutlinger General Anzeiger, 16 December 1982 Bulmer, Marge. “Critic's Choice - Hannelore Baron,” Reader, 20 November 1987 Cantu, John Carlos. “Joint Exhibition Reveals Art's Dichotomy,” The Ann Arbor News, Section G, p. 3, 31 January 1988 Cotter, Holland. “Darts and Fusillades From the Sewing Basket,” The New York Times, 28 June 1996. Donohue, Marlena. The Los Angeles Times, 18 December 1987 Donahue, Marlena. 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Poroner, Palmer. “No Hiatus for This Season,” Artspeak, Vol. III, No. 11, 10 December 1981 Poroner, Palmer. Artspeak, 19 December 1981 Raynor, Vivien. “Works by 84 Area Artists in Katonah Exhibition,” The New York Times, Westchester section, 30 August 1981 Raynor, Vivien. “Hannelore Baron,” The New York Times, Section C, p. 27, 6 December 1985 Raynor, Vivien. “Contemporary Collages,” The New York Times, Section C, p. 38, 19 December 1986 Ross, Jeanette. “Redeeming the Flotsam,” Artweek, p. 3-4, 24 December 1988 Russell, John. The New York Daily Metro (during New York Times strike), 17 September 1978 Schiffman, Carl. “New York Galleries, Late Fall ‘95,” New England Review, Vol 17, No. 4 Schmitt-Rilling, Maria. “Leidensbilder und Lebensfunken, Malerei von Hannelore Baron im Saarland Museum, Saarbruken,” Die Rheinpfalz, No. 273, 26 November 1982 Shapiro, Lauren. “Artist Reveals Private Personal Collection,” The Michigan Daily News, 5 February 1988 Stern, Fred. "Letter from America," Mizue, p 94-95, Winter, 1988 Stern, Fred. “"Boxes: Labyrinth of Dream,” Mizue, p 32-54, Spring 1988 Taylor, Sue. “Baron Creates Poignant Collages,” Chicago Sun Times, 6 November 1985, p.60 Tully, Judd. “Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists,” ArtNews, December 1984 Wells, Eleanore. “Hannelore Baron,” ArtScene, March 1994. ----- “In the Galleries,” Art-Talk Newspaper, March 1994. ----- “Hannelore Baron at the Member's Gallery,” Albright Knox Art Gallery Calendar, January 1981 ----- Washington Post, 1 April 1983 ----- Images and Issues, July/August, 1984 ----- “Hannelore Baron in Der Galerie Lopes,” Tages-Anzeiger, 22 March 1986 ----- ArtNews, p. 106, October 1989 ----- “Hannelore Baron,” The New York Times, 12 April 1991 ----- “Hannelore Baron,” The New Yorker, p. 27, 11 October 1993 ----- “A Woman’s Legacy,” Fiberarts, p. 17, Jan/Feb 1997 (reproduction) Exhibition Catalogues: Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung, Curated and Essay by Ingrid Schaffner, co-published by Haus der Kunst, Munich, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Prestel, 1997. Hannelore Baron: Collages and Box Constructions. Essay by Eva Forgacs. Farbklang Kulturverein, Dillingen, Germany; King St. Stephen’s Museum, Szekesfervar, Hungary; ACA Gallery, Munich, Germany, 1996/97. In Pursuit of the Invisible, Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin. Loomis Chaffee School, West Stockbridge, MA, published by Hard Press. Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, 1996. Hannelore Baron: Collages & Box Constructions. Essay by Peter Frank. Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, and Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, 1995. Hannelore Baron. Fujii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Hannelore Baron: 1926 - 1987. Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York, and Jack Rutberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, 1988. Hannelore Baron: Collages. Galleri Zero, Stockholm, Sweden, 1986. Selected Public Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bass Museum, Miami, FL The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Kunstsammlung der Stadt Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Modern Galerie des Saarland Museums, Saarbrucken, Germany The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC The New York Public Library, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Return to Hannelore Baron