Hanover Gallery
The Hanover Gallery was an art gallery in London . It was founded in June 1947 by the German art expert Erica Brausen at 32a St. George's Street and closed on April 1, 1973. It takes its name from Hanover Square , which is only a few meters away . The gallery was one of the world's most important for modern art of its time.
meaning
Erica Brausen came from Düsseldorf and after her arrival in London, immediately after the Second World War, she initially worked in the Redfern Gallery in the city's west end. From 1947 she ran the gallery together with her future lover Toto Koopman with an extraordinary sense of the zeitgeist. The first major exhibition in 1949 showed works by the then largely unknown English painter Francis Bacon and was also his first solo exhibition. Bacon stayed with the gallery until 1958. In 1956, the French historian Jean-Yves Mock joined Brausen and helped shape the history of the gallery for 17 years.
Other artists who exhibited there (some first) included Alberto Giacometti , Henri Matisse , Joan Miró , Henry Moore , Lucian Freud , Man Ray , William Turnbull , César Baldaccini, and William Scott .
Erica Brausen closed the gallery in 1973 when she moved to Zurich .
Web links
- Literature from and about Hanover Gallery in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ see e.g. B. British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century, Hanover Gallery , accessed November 4, 2014
- ↑ Jean-Yves Mock is auctioning off art from the gallery in Telegraph on January 10, 2005, accessed on November 4, 2014
- ^ Obituary for Erica Brausen in The Independent dated December 30, 1992, accessed November 4, 2014