German-born American sculptor and textile artist (1936-1970)
Eva Hesse
Hesse in her studio in 1965
Born
(1936-01-11)January 11, 1936
Hamburg, Nazi Germany
Died
May 29, 1970(1970-05-29) (aged 34)
New York City, U.S.
Nationality
American
Education
Yale University, studied with Josef Albers at Yale, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Art Students League of New York
Known for
Sculpture
Movement
Postminimalism
Spouse
Tom Doyle (1961–66; divorced)
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.
EvaHesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass,...
Telegraph. October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2013. Scott, A.O. "Review: 'EvaHesse' Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist's Brief Life". The New York Times...
materials that they had around them. A key artist during this time was EvaHesse. One of Eva's most popular works does not have a title. It is composed of latex...
enumerate all the continuities and similarities between them. The work of EvaHesse is also postminimalist: it uses "grids" and "seriality", themes often...
M. Pilgrim, Jan Müller, Robert Beauchamp, Bob Thompson Feminist Art — EvaHesse, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, Mary Beth Edelson, Ewa Partum, Valie Export...
whom LeWitt associated. LeWitt also became friends with Hanne Darboven, EvaHesse, and Robert Smithson. LeWitt taught at several New York schools, including...
known creators of soft sculptures include Claes Oldenburg, Yayoi Kusama, EvaHesse, Sarah Lucas and Magdalena Abakanowicz. Worldwide, sculptors have usually...
Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, EvaHesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Pat Lipsky, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz and...
qualities of imitation found in the erotic, organic sculptures of artists EvaHesse and Louise Bourgeois, are not necessarily for strictly "mimetic" purposes...
scores of others including Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, EvaHesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, James...
process. The Happenings artist Allan Kaprow, sculptors Richard Serra and EvaHesse, and many contemporary artists have retained Pollock's emphasis on the...
until he retired from teaching in 1958. At Yale, Richard Anuszkiewicz, EvaHesse, Neil Welliver, and Jane Davis Doggett were notable students. In 1962...
initiative enabled appreciation for female artists such as Mary Cassatt, EvaHesse, and Charlotte Salomon. Her theoretical and methodological innovations...
moved her studio into the same building as Donald Judd and sculptor EvaHesse; Hesse became a close friend. In the early 1960s, Kusama began to create so-called...
Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, EvaHesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato...
children's book illustrator 1951: Bill Kresse, syndicated cartoonist 1952: EvaHesse, minimalist painter and sculptor 1952: Sam Scali, advertising-agency owner...
process art are Abel Azcona, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Chris Drury, EvaHesse, Gary Kuehn, Barry Le Va, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Richard Serra,...
Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, founded in 1972 and edited by Kenner and EvaHesse, and Terrell's two-volume A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (1980–1984)...
and feminist narratives also relates to the work of Louise Bourgeois, EvaHesse, Alina Szapocznikow, and Niki de St Phalle. In 1974, Wilke began work...
adolescent man, he discovers Demian's mother, Frau Eva. These women do not have major roles in the story, but Hesse uses them symbolically as facets of the depths...
Plate Measure (1969), and a Splash Piece: Splashing with Four Molds (To EvaHesse) (1969).[citation needed] Following his process-based works of the late...