Eva Hesse (artist)
Eva Hesse (born January 11, 1936 in Hamburg ; † May 29, 1970 in New York ) was a German- American artist . She is considered a representative of process art and Arte Povera . Her life story, her extraordinary success in the short time of her work and her early death made her a myth.
Life
Eva Hesse was born in 1936 in Hamburg's Isestraße as the daughter of the Jewish lawyer Wilhelm Hesse and his wife Ruth Marcus Hesse.
Wilhelm Hesse could since the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 his profession no longer work and engaged in the community the synagogue on Bornplatz . At the age of two, Eva Hesse and her older sister Helen were sent to Holland by their parents on a children's transport at the end of 1938 . There the siblings were housed in a Catholic children's home in Rijswijk. In 1939 the family emigrated to the USA and settled in New York.
The parents divorced in the spring of 1945, in the same year Wilhelm Hesse married Eva Nathanson and received custody of both daughters. Her mother committed suicide in 1946, shortly before Eva Hesse was ten years old.
Following a scholarship, Eva Hesse studied painting at the Cooper Union in New York and at the Yale School of Art and Architecture , among others with Josef Albers . At the beginning of the 1960s, her work received impulses from the objects by Marcel Duchamp .
In 1961 Eva Hesse married the sculptor Tom Doyle. In 1964/1965 she and her husband spent a year with the collectors Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt in Kettwig an der Ruhr , where they moved into a spacious studio in Scheidt's cloth factory. This is where the first three-dimensional works were created. After returning to New York, she turned to sculpture, working with the unusual, decomposing materials natural rubber , fiberglass and polyester , for which her work is known.
Eva Hesse died of a brain tumor in New York on May 29, 1970 at the age of 34 .
The film set designer Marcie Begleiter took on the German-American artist in her directorial debut and created a film documentary by Eva Hesse , which was presented for the first time in Germany in April 2016.
“(Again) in Germany (1964), Hesse also began to deal with her role as a woman in art - and after returning from New York, she stepped out of the shadow of her husband, along with a divorce. She devoted herself to the feminist theories of the 60s and that key to her work: Samuel Beckett . Of waiting for Godot , she said: "It's really a key - the key to understanding me. Few understand and see that my humor comes from, yes, my artistic approach."
Eva-Hesse-Strasse in Cologne-Lövenich is named after her.
Exhibitions
- 1965: Eva Hesse. Material pictures and drawings , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- In the winter of 1972/1973 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York, devoted a large solo exhibition to Eva Hesse: Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition , which was shown in four other cities.
- She was posthumously at documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies : Processes department and also represented as an artist at documenta 6 in 1977.
- In 1984 her work was shown in the exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf .
- 2013: Kunsthalle Hamburg : Eva Hesse: One More than One.
literature
- Jörg Daur: Eva Hesse - between anti-form and material aesthetics: new forms and materials in art around 1970 (= studies on the history of medicine, art and literature , 59) Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2007, ISBN 978-3-935791-25 -0 (Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main [2007])
- Reinhild Feldhaus: The place of artists in the discourse of the avant-garde: the reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker , Frida Kahlo and Eva Hesse (= Dissertation.de, 1565). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86624-465-8 (dissertation University of Oldenburg 2002)
- Michael Jürgs : A woman who can be touched. The breathless life of the artist Eva Hesse . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 3-570-00929-7
- Ulrike Haage : Everything is different. 1, 2 Music Miniatures on the Life of Eva Hesse . Dramaturgy and edition office: Katarina Agathos, Speakers: Eva Hesse (German): Anna Lena Zühlke, Eva Hesse (English): Myra Davies, father + artists opinions: Ingo Hülsmann ... Bayerischer Rundfunk . According to Hesse's notes. Radio play , 1 CD , Sans Soleil, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-88030-044-6 (German and English)
- Lucy Lippard : Eva Hesse . Biography. Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1992, ISBN 0-306-80484-0 ( English , first edition: New York University Press, New York NY 1976)
- Petra Reichensperger: Eva Hesse: the third category . Schreiber, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88960-072-7 (Dissertation University, now University of the Arts, Berlin 2000)
- Annette Spohn: "I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed" . Microfiche edition, Klein, [Berlin] 1997, DNB 953514412 , OCLC 917445147 (dissertation FU Berlin 1997, 6 microfiches : 24 ×).
- Annette Tietenberg : Constructions of the feminine. Eva Hesse: an artist myth of the 20th century . Reimer, Berlin 2005 ISBN 978-3-496-01322-8 .
- Gabriele Woithe: The work of art as a life story. On the autobiographical dimension of the visual arts . Logos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-1819-6 (dissertation University of the Arts Berlin 2007)
- Jonas Engelmann : Dealing with the inherited past. Escape from Germany, Jewish life in New York in the forties, Germany again, now in the sixties; Eva Hesse's art reflects the misery of the world after Auschwitz. In Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 23, 9 June 2016, pp. 2–7 (with the artist's illustration) (also online)
Movies
- Four Artists: Robert Ryman , Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman , Susan Rothenberg . 47 min, Documentary USA 1988. Directed by Michael Blackwood IMDb Four Artists. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .
- Eva Hesse. USA / D 2016. Documentary, R Marcie Begleiter, 105 min, OmdUT Real fiction, detailed description , with table. Biography of Hesse
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Hesse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eva Hesse - Museum Wiesbaden June 11th - October 13th 2002
- Materials by and about Eva Hesse in the documenta archive
- Eva Hesse on kunstaspekte.de
- Eva Hesse (artist). In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- "Eva Hesse? Who is Eva Hesse? ” , By Ricarda Albers in: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 11, 2007, on Michael Jürgs' biography of Hesse
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography Eva Hesse ( memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in a contribution from the Hamburger Kunsthalle
- ↑ So beautiful, so truthful: the documentary "Eva Hesse" In: Der Westen. April 26, 2016
- ↑ Marcus Woeller: Marcie companion "Eva Hesse"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesse, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1970 |
| Place of death | new York |