Eva Hesse
(American, 1936–1970)
Biography
Eva Hesse was a German-born American artist who made innovative sculptural installations. Working with textiles, latex, and fiberglass, Hesse's works ushered in unique ideas.The artist took on some of the motifs of her peers Sol Lewitt and Joseph Beuys, in rejecting the historical definitions of sculptural forms. “Chaos can be structured as non-chaos,” she once expressed. One of her most important works Hang Up (1966), is an exploration of space which consists of a long metal loop attached to a wooden stretcher bar. Born on January 11, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany, Hesse fled Germany during World War II, settling in New York in 1939. She studied at Cooper Union until 1957, but later completed her BFA at Yale University, where she studied with Josef Albers. The artist emerged in New Yorks's avant-garde scene in 1966, with her inclusion in Lucy Lippard’s landmark exhibition “Eccentric Abstraction”. Hesse died on May 29, 1970 in New York, NY from a brain tumor at the age of 34. Today, Hesse's works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
Eva Hesse
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