Eva Aeppli
Eva Aeppli (born May 2, 1925 in Zofingen ; † May 4, 2015 in Honfleur ) was a Swiss material artist.
biography
The daughter of an anthroposophically oriented family of teachers was downright shaken in her youth by reading Wolfgang Langhoff's autobiographical report Die Moorsoldaten and dealt with this artistically after attending the trade school in Basel (1943 to 1945). She had lived in France since 1953 and was best known for her life-size, often gloomy textile dolls, preferably made of silk and velvet. The themes of her art were sadness , loneliness and death . Later she lost interest in ephemeral dolls and began making symbolic bronze sculptures .
Eva Aeppli was Jean Tinguely's first wife .
literature
- Heidi Violand-Hobi: Eva Aeppli. Acrobat between heaven and earth. Kehrer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-86828-982-4 .
Works
- La Table, 1967
- Groupe 48 (The Group of 48), 1969-1970
Style description
“With their bodies that have fallen into disrepair, they [the dolls] crouch or lie on damaged chairs or armchairs or group themselves in limp velvet robes in a chorus of tragedy. Their feather-weight spider fingers, which have grown to claws, dangle on their limp arms, which bear emaciated, impassive or ghostly painful faces, which are often frozen like masks. These human-sized messengers of horror have nothing to do with popular dolls. They transform every room into an asylum, a house of the dead, in which the shadows of the living vegetate apathetically. And nobody can escape this atmosphere. "
literature
- Basel artist Eva Aeppli died two days after her 90th birthday . In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung May 4, 2015, online
- here, gloomy doll world. On the death of the Basel artist Eva Aeppli (obituary). In: NZZ May 4, 2015, online
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Aeppli, Eva. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Renée Wolf: Nightmares in Velvet and Silk . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin 1981, November, pp. 80–90, ISSN 0173-2781
Web links
- Maria Smolenicka: Aeppli, Eva. In: Sikart
- Eva Aeppli Electronic catalog raisonné
- Obituary to Eva Aeppli on www.srf.ch on May 4, 2015
- Publications by and about Eva Aeppli in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basel artist Eva Aeppli died two days after her 90th birthday , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung online, May 4, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Renée Wolf: Nightmares in velvet and silk . In: Wolf Uecker (Hrsg.): Art - The art magazine . Gruner + Jahr, November 1981, ISSN 0173-2781 , p. 80-90 .
- ↑ Review , Sunday newspaper , July 19, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aeppli, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss material artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zofingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 2015 |
| Place of death | Honfleur |