Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse ( born January 11, 1936 in Hamburg, † May 29, 1970 in New York) was an American artist of German origin. It is regarded as representative of the process art and Arte Povera. Her life story, her extraordinary success in its short period of activity, and her early death she could be a myth.

Life

Eva Hesse was born in 1936 in Hamburg Isestraße as the daughter of a lawyer of Jewish faith. In order to escape the Nazis in Germany, she was sent at the age of two years, together with her older sister Helen end of 1938 by her parents to Holland. There they stayed with friends and so escaped the complicated, humiliating exit formalities were often nothing more than a systematic financial pillaging. In 1939, Eva Hesse with her family to the U.S., where they settled in New York.

Your manic -depressive mother who does not klarkam with their life situation and could not overcome the loss of their entire family in various concentration camps, committed suicide on 8 January 1946, shortly before Eva Hesse was ten years old suicide. The parents had divorced in the spring of 1945, in the fall of married Wilhelm Hesse Eva Nathanson, but Eva accepted life not their eponymous stepmother. Eva Hesse studied following a scholarship painting at the Cooper Union in New York and at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, among others, Josef Albers. Her work received early 1960s impulses through the objects of Marcel Duchamp.

1961 married Eva Hesse, the sculptor Tom Doyle. 1964/1965 she spent with her husband a year in Kettwig an der Ruhr. It emerged first three-dimensional works. After returning to New York, she turned to sculpture and worked here with the unusual, the decomposing materials, natural rubber, fiberglass and polyester, are known for their work.

Eva Hesse died on 29 May 1970 at the age of only 34 years in New York with a brain tumor.

Exhibitions

• She was posthumously at the documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Individual mythologies represent processes and also at documenta 6 in 1977 as an artist.
• 1984 their works in the exhibition From here were - Two months new German art in Dusseldorf shown.
• 2013: Kunsthalle Hamburg: Eva Hesse: One More than One. Gego: Line as Object. Serial Attitudes: repetition as a method since the 1960s. Catalog.