Frieda Hunziker artwork • painting • previously for sale Mexico
Frieda Hunziker
Amsterdam 1908-1966
1908-1966
Mexico
oil on canvas 100.0 x 200.0 cm, signed on the stretcher and painted 1962-1963
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Frits Swart, zoon van de kunstenares.
Literature: tent.cat. Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, 'Contour onzer beeldende kunst 1966: tentoonstelling onder auspiciën van De Kring', 1966, cat.nr. 80.
Exhibited: Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, in bruikleen 1996-ca. 2000; Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, 'Contour onzer beeldende kunst 1966: tentoonstelling onder auspiciën van De Kring', 2 april-16 mei 1966.
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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