Ninon Hesse

Ninon Hesse, previously Ninon Dolbin, born foreigners (born 18 September 1895 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, † September 22, 1966 in Montagnola ), was an art historian and the third wife of Hermann Hesse.

Life

Ninon foreigners was born the daughter of a Jewish lawyer in Czernowitz and studied in Vienna archeology, art history and medicine. She married in 1918 the Viennese artist Fred Dolbin Benedict ( 1883-1971 ), from whom she separated in 1920 again; the official divorce, but was only shortly before her marriage to Hermann Hesse in November 1931.

In 1910, after reading Peter Camenzind she wrote to Hesse, 1922, she got to know him personally. In 1927, she sold her house in Vienna and moved to Monatgnola to Hermann Hesse in the Camuzzi. From 1931 she lived with the Hesse at the southern edge, the Casa Hesse, a kind of double house, whose two parts were connected together internally and each of the partners allowed his own sphere of life. Parallel to the accompaniment of her husband's literary oeuvre she pursued her own art-historical interests and worked on for several months, part archaeological traveling abroad.

Her grave is located at the Hermann Hesse at the cemetery in Gentilino.