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Charmion von Wiegand The Adamantine Way 1964 – 1965 Oil and graphite on silk on board 27.9 x 24.1 cm

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Charmion Von Wiegand, The Pink Lotus, 1956

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With female artists of the modern era finally receiving their due praise it was also high time to shed light on American artist Charmion von Wiegand (1896-1983), a fascinating protagonist of modern art in America. Although she is primarily known for her friendship with Piet Mondrian and her subsequent Mondrian-esque paintings there is a lot a more about her than just this rather short episode: von Wiegand was a writer, an art critic and a painter whose work had a very spiritual dimension inspired by Buddhism and Theosophy.

Initially planned to take place in 2021 but, thanks to the Corona pandemic, postponed to March through August 2023 the Kunstmuseum Basel presented a thorough retrospective of von Wiegand’s work entitled „Expanding Modernism“. Prestel published the accompanying catalogue that gathers key works and several highly insightful essays pivotal to understanding the multifaceted life and work of the artist. They span a bridge between the physical artworks of Charmion von Wiegand and her intellectual and spiritual world that sought to express the universality of Buddhism in abstract art. Although, as the essays reveal, her personal and artistic connection to Piet Mondrian was close she never solely imitated his works but processed his influence on her way to find her own artistic voice. The relationship between her and Mondrian nonetheless left a lifelong mark on von Wiegand as the catalogue also reveals: she actually helped him translate his texts into English and sort of functioned as Mondrian’s PR assistant. Later when she told him about her own artistic aspirations the relationship markedly cooled off and others, especially Harry Holtzman, took over her role and consecutively excluded her from the hagiography of Mondrian’s NY years. This greatly disappointed her although from time to time journalist and historians interviewed her with regards to Mondrian.

„Expanding Modernism“ is a wonderfully thorough overview of Charmion von Wiegand’s art and life and will surely contribute to the rediscovery of the work of a woman long overlooked.

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Charmion Von Wiegand

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Today I went to the US National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These are six crops of pieces I saw. The artists are Elihu Vedder, Firelei Báez, George Catlin, Roger Shimomura, Charmion von Wiegand, and Arthur F. Andrews.

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Charmion von Wiegand - Untitled, 1946

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Charmion Von Wiegand, "Nothing that is wrong in principle can be right in practice."--Carl Schurz, 1829-1906. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1966, oil and pencil on canvas, 49 7⁄8 x 27 1⁄8 in. (126.8 x 68.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.300

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Charmion von Wiegand - Kunstmuseum Basel.

Charmion von Wiegand - Kunstmuseum Basel. #Kunst #Ausstellung #KunstmuseumBasel #Exhibition #Art #CharmionvonWiegand #neoplastizismus

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CHARMION VON WIEGAND

Collage #264 The Mountain Way.

Paper collage with acrylic on card, 1963. Signed, titled, and dated in ink, lower edge recto and signed,

titled and dated in ink, verso.

Swann Galleries

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Charmion von Wiegand Triptych, Number 700 1961 Oil and graphite pencil on linen, three parts Overall 107.3 × 138 cm

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Charmion von Wiegand

The Eight Categories of Fate 1953-1954

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Charmion von Wiegand

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Charmion Von Wiegand

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Charmion von Wiegand, The Citadel, 1949-50

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