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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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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Conceptual
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Assemblage
- •Fiberglass
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Constructions
- •Post-Minimalist
Art Subject
Art Teacher
- •Josef Albers
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
- •School of Industrial Art, New York City, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art