Frieda Hunziker artwork • painting • previously for sale Animals III
Frieda Hunziker
Amsterdam 1908-1966
1908-1966
Animals III
oil on canvas 99.8 x 124.4 cm, signed on stretcher and executed ca. 1955
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Frits Swart, zoon van de kunstenaar.
Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Tentoonstelling Liga Nieuw Beelden', 1956, cat.nr. 54; tent.cat. Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, 'Herinneringen aan Frieda Hunziker', 1967, cat.nr. 18; tent.cat. Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 'Doorbraak van de Moderne Kunst: Vrij Beelden '46-'50 CoBrA '48-'51 Creatie '50-'55. Vernieuwingen in Nederland na 1945', 1996, afb. in kleur pag. 57; Margot Welle, 'Frieda Hunziker', Amstelveen 2000, afb. in kleur pag. 48.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Tentoonstelling Liga Nieuw Beelden', nov.-dec. 1956; Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, 'Herinneringen aan Frieda Hunziker, 27 april-11 juni 1967; Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 'Doorbraak van de Moderne Kunst: Vrij Beelden '46-'50 CoBrA '48-'51 Creatie '50-'55. Vernieuwingen in Nederland na 1945', 14 juni-1 sept. 1996; Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, in bruikleen 1996-ca. 2000, inv.nr. 0928 0000239.
Noted for her distinctive and pioneering work in the 1950s and 60s, Frieda Hunziker started out as a teacher but began producing her own work in the 1930s. Her early pictures are characteristically pared down and realistic, but by 1948 had evolved towards complete abstraction. In the year previous she was among the founders of the artists' group Vrij Beelden, whose work was regularly shown in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The only woman in the group, she was also one of its most active members.
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