Anna-Eva Bergman

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Anna-Eva Bergman (born May 29, 1909 in Stockholm ; died July 24, 1987 in Grasse , France ) was a Norwegian painter .

Anna-Eva Bergman is one of the most important Scandinavian and internationally renowned representatives of modern art after the Second World War . She painted in the style of Abstract Expressionism . It is counted to the Nouvelle École de Paris .

Life

Anna-Eva Bergman studied at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo in 1926 and continued her education in Vienna and Paris .

In 1929 she married the German painter Hans Hartung (1904–1989). The marriage was divorced relatively quickly under pressure from her mother - in Hartung's absence. The two met again in 1952 and married a second time in 1957; they stayed together until their death.

In 1959 Anna-Eva Bergmann was a participant in documenta II in Kassel .

Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman lived and worked together in France for many years, especially in Paris . She died in Grasse on July 24, 1987 , two years before her husband.

Since 1994, works by the artist couple have been exhibited at the Hartung-Bergman Foundation.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Alfred Werner Maurer : Hartung-Bergmann Foundation in: Architecture icons Côte d'Azur + Riviera, Philologus Verlag Basel 2007;
  • S. Buhles: Bergman, Anna-Eva . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 398 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The light of the north and the shadows of a marriage in FAZ from August 9, 2014, page 14
  2. ↑ Reflection becomes reflection in FAZ on January 13, 2018, page 11
  3. ^ Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig: Anna-Eva Bergman. Light - Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. Retrieved January 18, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Anna-Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1987
Place of death Grasse , France