Sabine Hettner

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Sabine Hettner (born October 4, 1907 in Florence , † October 1985 in Paris ) was a French modernist painter .

Life

Sabine Hettner has been painting since she was a child, largely acquiring her artistic and technical skills through her father Otto Hettner and his friends Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix , who were all professors at the Dresden Art Academy . The older brother, Roland Hettner, was a student of Otto Dix and lived as a painter and ceramist in Italy. Her mother was from France; Sabine Hettner spent most of her life in Paris. She was the godchild of Gerhart Hauptmann .

During the German occupation of France in World War II , Sabine Hettner married a French Jew who took her name and thus escaped persecution by the Nazis . After the war, the marriage was dissolved again, and Sabine Hettner received lifelong right to live in a studio in the Paris district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés on Rue de Saint-Simon , where she lived until the end of her life. She was friends there with the painters Sonia and Robert Delaunay , who lived in the same house.

Since 1946 she exhibited regularly in France, but also in Italy, Spain, Denmark, England and the USA. In Germany there were also exhibitions such. B. in the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (1960), in Gronau-Epe (1980, 1983) and in the Salon for Abstract Art Hamburg (1981).

Sabine Hettner in her studio in Paris

Sabine Hettner created numerous works (oil, gouaches , drawings). After a short figurative period, she turned to the abstraction of the universe, such as the sea, earth, sky and the world of minerals. Her pictures point to a pantheistic communion with nature, in a world shaped by mysticism.

Your pictures have no titles. She initially signed the pictures with “S. Hettner ”, after an encounter with Pablo Picasso with the full name“ Sabine Hettner ”: Picasso was enthusiastic about the pictures. At the first meeting, however, he noticed that "the artist" was a woman and lost interest.

signature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucien Barroz: "Sabine Hettner a installé une exposition de ses peintures [...]" In: Le Dauphiné Liberée of July 24, 1963.
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, March 1960, details unknown
  3. ↑ Unknown author: Images of the Mysterious, exhibition in the Galerie van Almsick. In: Westfälische Nachrichten, May 17, 1980
  4. ↑ Unknown author: “Wrapped in the mystical - painter Sabine Hettner's feelings recorded”, exhibition in the van Almsick gallery. In: Westfälische Nachrichten, October 19, 1983
  5. ↑ Suzanne Prou: Magmas routillants coulées de feu. In: Prospettive d'arte, September 1978
personal data
SURNAME Hettner, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH October 1985
Place of death Paris