Hanover Gallery

For the tunnel structure in Gibraltar of the same name, see Hanover Battery.

The Hanover Gallery was an art gallery in London. It was established in June 1947 by the German art expert Erica Brausen at 32A St. George’s Street, W2, and closed on 1 April 1973. It was named for nearby Hanover Square. The Hanover Gallery was in its time an important centre for modern art.

History

Erica Brausen arrived in London at the end of the Second World War and worked at the Redfern Gallery in the West End of London. From 1947 on she ran the Hanover Gallery together with her friend Toto Koopman. The first large exhibition in 1949 was of work by the then unknown British painter Francis Bacon, his first solo exhibition.[1] Bacon's close relationship to Brausen and the gallery ended by 1958.

In 1956 the French historian Jean-Yves Mock joined the staff. Mock still holds a large collection of photographs of that time.[2]

Among the artists who exhibited at the gallery, some for the first time ever, were Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Man Ray, William Turnbull, César Baldaccini and William Scott.[3]

Brausen closed the gallery in 1973 and moved to Zürich.

References

  1. ↑ see British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century, Hanover Gallery
  2. ↑ Jean-Yves Mock sells art from the gallery in The Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2005
  3. ↑ Obituary: Erica Brausen in The Independent, December 30, 1992