Frieda Hunziker artwork • painting • previously for sale The couple
Frieda Hunziker
Amsterdam 1908-1966
1908-1966
The couple
oil on canvas 99.9 x 124.4 cm, signed on the stretcher and painted ca. 1959
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Creuze, 'Hollandais d'aujourd'hui', 1960, pag. 17, cat.nr. 30; 'Hervormd Nederland', 25 febr. 1961 (met afb.); tent.cat. Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, 'Herinneringen aan Frieda Hunziker', 1967, cat.nr. 34 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie Creuze, 'Hollandais d'aujourd'hui', 6 mei-6 juli 1960; Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, 'Herinneringen aan Frieda Hunziker', 27 april-11 juni 1967; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, in bruikleen okt. 1961-febr. 1967, inv.nr. B 4716.
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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