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Yvonne Hagen and Friends ” Talking of Yves”

CChidester — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:59:30 +0000

Talking of Yves, Friendships and connections inParis, New York & London. Exhibition at England & Co gallery, London,23 June- 21 July 2010
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Yvonne Hagen, Tina Keane, Susan Hiller, Iris Clert,
N.H. Stubbing, Ralph Rumney and Yves Klein
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Talking of Yves examines some of the interconnected circles that evolved around the art critic Yvonne Hagen, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s. These intersections of social and artistic networks are mapped by their convergence around her friendships with the artist Yves Klein and the Parisian gallery director, Iris Clert. Read More (Yvonne Hagen was a close friend to Virginia Fontaine: see references to photos or contact information@fontaine.org for more references)

The Esprit of Gestures: Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact

CChidester — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:07:14 +0000

at Kupferstichkabinett (Collection of Drawings & Prints)

Jul 30, 2010 - Oct 10, 2010

The theme for this group exhibition was inspired by the donation (brokered by Clemens Fahnemann, Berlin) in April of this year of 213 of Hans Hartung’s printed works by the Fondation Hans Hartung & Anna-Eva Bergman in Antibes in the South of France. With this show then, Hartung’s role as a printmaker will be honoured for the first time in more than 25 years. read more

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Exhibits the Private Collection of Entrepreneur Max Fischer

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:09:46 +0000

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Exhibits the Private Collection of Entrepreneur Max Fischer. Here is a good write up on the show. The artists that Fischer collected were the same circle as Fontaine. Includes Expressionist works on paper by Max Beckmann, Heinrich Campendonk, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller and Max Pechstein, as well as Bauhaus artists Oskar Schlemmer and Lyonel Feininger among others Read More

Lost Painting

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:11:11 +0000

Portait of Leo Fontaine by Paul Fontaine, age 16, 1929

This painting was last seen in the home of Leo and Lynn Fontaine, Sunlakes, Arizona c. 1995. If you know of it’s wearabouts, please contact information@fontaine.org

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:28:43 +0000

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Discovery of the month

Mary Wigman, dancer, wrote to Virginia over a period of four years as Virginia was attempting to help her regain her standing with the American press.

Virginia met Mary wigman while she was photographing, as a freelance photographer, Mary and other dancers at the Montreux , Switzerland International Dance Congress May-Aug 1952.

Here are notes of Virginia’s observations of the dancers’ instructors, Harald Kreutzberg , Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss and Rosalia Chladek

Here are sample letters from between Mary Wigman and Virginia

For more see the Mary Wigman et al page in the Archive

Here are photos of the dancers