Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch

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Isabella Hesse-Rabinovitch (born December 19, 1917 in Zurich ; † August 14, 2003 in Küsnacht ) was a Swiss graphic artist, photographer and filmmaker.

Life

Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch was born as the daughter of graphic designer Gregor Rabinovitch and his wife Stefanie von Bach ; she grew up in Zurich. After an apprenticeship as a graphic designer , she began studying at the Vienna School of Applied Arts , but had to leave Austria in 1939 as a result of the annexation to National Socialist Germany . In Switzerland she worked as an illustrator for various magazines and daily newspapers, soon also as a photographer. In 1941 she married Heiner Hesse , a son of the writer Hermann Hesse , with whom she had three children. The couple separated in 1976.

Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch began to work with film at the age of 52 , and from 1984 also with video . In the following decades she made numerous experimental films , film portraits and documentaries . Since the early 1970s, she was heavily involved in women's film . In 1972 she was invited to the 1st international women's film festival in New York, three years later she organized the first women's film festival in Switzerland.

From 1990 Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch lived mostly in Ticino. She edited another book about her father and organized exhibitions. She achieved national fame when she crashed her car from the Horgen – Meilen ferry in 1996 and was rescued from the sinking vehicle by a courageous inspector. Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch died on August 14, 2003 in her house in Küsnacht.

Works (selection)

  • Fried Egg (1969),
  • Monumento Moritat (1969),
  • Greetings from ... (1970),
  • The Red Blue (1971),
  • Over a Carpet (1972),
  • Notes on Annemie Fontana (1969–72),
  • Tell ridicule (1974),
  • Julie from Ohio (1978),
  • Un simbolo del nostro tempo (1978),
  • Siren Island (1981/82),
  • Snake Magic (1984),
  • Ghosts & Guests (1989),
  • Lilith (1984),
  • Up Close (1985),
  • Body Body Blues (1986),
  • The great game of life (1994),
  • The Big Game Movie (1998)

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personal data
SURNAME Hesse-Rabinovitch, Isa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hesse-Rabinovitch, Isabella (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic designer, photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2003
Place of death Küsnacht