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18 July–28 August 1952

Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, presents “Alexander Calder / Joan Miró.” The exhibition originated from Calder’s solo show at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal.

CF, exhibition file

Cover of catalogue for Calder Mobile, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany, 1952, showing Rouge, Orange et Bleu (c. 1949)

5–6 September 1952

Calder performs Cirque Calder in Roxbury.

CF, Calder to Rockefeller; CF, Osborn to Calder, 8 September

Mid-September 1952

Calder arrives in Bonn on 10 September with an invitation from the German State Department to tour West Germany. After two days he travels to Munich, where he meets Bruno Werner, a journalist who reviewed his first Berlin exhibition in 1929. He continues on to Mannheim and

Darmstadt.

CF, passport and German identification card; Calder 1966, 211–12

23–29 September 1952

Calder stays in Berlin.

Calder 1966, 211–12

After 29 September 1952

Calder travels to Hamburg, where he meets the dealer Rudolf Hoffmann. He then goes on to Hanover, Bremen, and Cologne before returning to Bonn.

Calder 1966, 211–12

9–10 October 1952

Calder flies from Bonn to New York.

CF, passport

18 November–9 December 1952

Galerie la Hune, Paris, exhibits “Permanence du Cirque.” The exhibition commemorates the publication of a book by the same title, which includes an essay by Calder, “Voici une petite histoire de mon cirque.”

CF, exhibition file

Winter 1952

Calder presents Cirque Calder in Washington, D.C.; Jean invites “what seemed half of Washington, D.C., to see it.”

Calder 1966, 213

Before 26 December 1952

At the suggestion of John Cage, American composer Earle Brown travels to Roxbury to meet Calder. Pierre Boulez joins him.

CF, project file