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Eva Hesse BIOGRAPHY
1936 Hamburg, Germany - 1970 New York City. Known for: Modernist imagery, constructions, sculpture.
A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual... Read full biography
A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi Germany. She was born... Read full biography
A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi Germany. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fled the Hitler regime with her family to become a resident of New York City in 1939 when she was three years old. Her parents divorced shortly after their arrival, and her... Read full biography
A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi Germany. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fled the Hitler regime with her family to become a resident of New York City in 1939 when she was three years old. Her parents divorced shortly after their arrival, and her mother later committed suicide. Eva attended the Pratt Institute briefly, Cooper Union for three years, and then Yale University where she earned a B.F.A. in 1959. Two years later she married the abstract sculptor Tom Doyle, and in 1964 returned to... Read full biography
A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi Germany. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fled the Hitler regime with her family to become a resident of New York City in 1939 when she was three years old. Her parents divorced shortly after their arrival, and her mother later committed suicide. Eva attended the Pratt Institute briefly, Cooper Union for three years, and then Yale University where she earned a B.F.A. in 1959. Two years later she married the abstract sculptor Tom Doyle, and in 1964 returned to Germany where, in an attempt to reconstruct her psyche from annihilation, she traced her family history and be... Read full biography
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A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire, papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi Germany.
She was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fled the Hitler regime with her family to become a resident of New York City in 1939 when she was three years old. Her parents divorced shortly after their arrival, and her mother later committed suicide.
Eva attended the Pratt Institute briefly, Cooper Union for three years, and then Yale University where she earned a B.F.A. in 1959. Two years later she married the abstract sculpt...But wait, there's more...
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