Her compositions by this time were dynamic and full of action, communicated through urgently scribbled and uninhibited forms that at times suggest windblown fields of wildflowers scattered among ...

Throughout her career, German Jewish artist Eva Hesse (1936-1970) was obsessed with the motif of the circle. In her diaries, Hesse connected her circular images with her own life. “I go in circles.

A comprehensive new documentary on Eva Hesse, one of the most innovative 1960s artists, will premiere in New York in April. Hesse’s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany in the 1940s and settled in New York ...

As if she knew that her time on Earth would be brief, Eva Hesse worked diligently and prolifically. In 1972, two years after her death at age of 34, New York’s Guggenheim mounted a memorial exhibition ...

In titling "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at the Berkeley Art Museum, guest co-curator Briony Fer coined a new term to indicate the gray zone between avowed artworks and inchoate or abandoned efforts. Hesse ...

During a career lasting little more than a decade, ending in 1970 with her death from brain cancer at age 34, the German-born American artist Eva Hesse endowed contemporary sculpture with new forms, ...

It is, I think, no melodramatic overstatement to describe the artist Eve Hesse’s life as essentially tragic. As a toddler, she barely survived World War II, having been sent from her Hamburg home to ...

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After 35 years of laying in storage, a monumental sculpture by Eva Hesse will be displayed this summer at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as the centrepiece of an exhibition exploring the artist’s ...