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Baron was born into a German Jewish family deeply traumatized by the violence of the Nazi regime.
Hannelore Baron (née Hannelore Alexander) is born on June 8, , in Dillingen, a small town in the Saarland region of Germany..
Hannelore Baron
American artist ( - )
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Born | Hannelore Alexander ()June 8, Dillingen, Germany |
Died | April 28, () (aged60) |
Nationality | American |
Knownfor | collages and box constructions |
Hannelore Baron (June 8, – April 28, ) was a German-born American artist who created highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions, and exhibited in the late s.
Biography
Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, Baron and her family fled persecution in Nazi Germany, illegally crossing the border into Luxembourg in In Baron's family sailed from Lisbon to New York and settled in the Bronx, New York City.
By the time she graduated from the Staubenmiller Textile High School in Manhattan, Baron was reading eastern philosophy, making increasingly abstract paintings and probably already experiencing the symptoms of claustrophobia and depression that would lead to a series of nervous br