Helen Berggruen
Helen Berggruen (* 1945 in San Francisco ) is an American painter.
Life
Helen Berggruen is the daughter of Heinz Berggruen and his first wife Lillian Zellerbach. After training at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and Byrd School in New York and Paris , she first worked as an actress with Robert Wilson . Encouraged by her father, the Parisian gallery owner , art collector and patron Heinz Berggruen, she made her hobby, painting, her main occupation. Inspired by French impressionism , as well as by Dutch genre painting , Indian and Persian miniatures , she creates snapshots of her immediate surroundings in bright colors . Helen Berggruen's work is regularly shown in galleries in New York, California and Berlin ( Galerie Mutter Fourage ). The artist lives near San Francisco , she works in two studios in California and in southwestern France.
Web links
- Exhibition directory (English)
- Ingeborg Ruthe: Helen in luck . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2009
- Gisela Sonnenburg: Painting against the speed of the world. In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 25, 2009 (unabridged)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Heinz Berggruen Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (PDF; 77 kB; 4 pages), February 26, 2007
- ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Helen in luck . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berggruen, Helen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, daughter of Heinz Berggruen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |