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Museums page for Eva Hesse ((1936 - 1970)), known for Modernist imagery, constructions, sculpture. Showing 11 museum collections and exhibitions.
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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
Eva Hesse - Artist Info
About Eva Hesse: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsArt Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014