Erica Brausen

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Erica Brausen

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
11 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. (292 mm x 242 mm)
Purchased, 1999
Photographs Collection
NPG x125996

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  • Erica Brausen (1908-1992), Art dealer and Director of the Hanover Gallery, London. Sitter in 7 portraits.

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  • Ida Kar (1908-1974), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1567 portraits, Sitter in 137 portraits.

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  • Freestone, Clare (appreciation) Wright, Karen (appreciation), Ida Kar Bohemian Photographer, 2011 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 March to 19 June 2011), p. 96 Read entry

    In the 1930s, German-born Brausen moved to Paris, where she mixed in the artistic circles of Montparnasse, before moving to London. She began her career in art dealing at the Redfern Gallery, before opening the Hanover Gallery in 1947 with the backing of the American banker and gallery owner Arthur Jeffress. For twenty-five years the gallery was hugely important in the international art world, hosting, for example, Francis Bacon's first solo exhibition (1949). As the gallery owner David Wolfers wrote for the Tatler, 'Continental sculpture has been an important feature - Marini, Manzu, Giacometti, Germaine Richier ... She has been a pioneer in making money out of sculpture and getting people to buy it for their homes.' Kar photographed Brausen with Germaine Richier's La Tauromachie (1953) at the Hanover Gallery. The photograph was published in 'A Gallery of Names that mean Galleries' in the 20 May 1959 issue of the Tatler & Bystander.

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Current affairs

Harold Macmillan wins the general election with an increased majority, returning to office as Conservative prime minister. The victory was the result of perceived economic improvement under the Conservative government, and his (misquoted) boast: 'you've never had it so good.' During his premiership he earned the nickname 'Supermac', coined by cartoonist, Victor 'Vicky' Weisz.

Art and science

Claudia Jones organises the first West Indian-style carnival in the country, starting the tradition of the annual Notting Hill carnival. The event was a response to the race riots of 1958, and an attempt to celebrate West Indian culture and help overcome racial prejudice by giving the whole community the opportunity to join in the event.

International

Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba. After defeating the American-backed Batista government, Castro's revolutionary army arrived in Havana on 8th January where Castro proclaimed himself Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Within a month, Prime Minister José Miró Cardona had resigned, and Castro took over.
In Tibet, an uprising against Chinese rule is brutally crushed, and the Dalai Lama flees to India, beginning his long exile.

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