“She wanted her work to last ... She certainly didn”
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Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse 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.
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culture · German-born American sculptor and textile artist (1936-1970) · sculptor · painter · draftsperson · textile artist · artist · collagist · also Eva Hesse, Hesse
Born 11 January 1936 · Died 29 May 1970 · Q215457
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Eva Hesse : a retrospective / exhibition and catalogue organized by Helen A. Cooper ; essays by Maurice Berger [and others] ; [edited by Lesley K. Baier]
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2024· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures’ Review: A Postminimalist’s Maximal Talent
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The Village Voice: ‘Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures’: Humanity and Otherworldliness in the Artist’s Late Work
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2022· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Who Discovered Eva Hesse?
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2020· 1 entry
The Art Newspaper: In Pictures | Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke compared in new catalogue
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2016· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse
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Artnet: New Documentary on Revolutionary Female Artist Eva Hesse to Launch in April
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2002· 1 entry
(organized jointly between the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Museum Wiesbaden), and concurrent exhibitions in 2006 at The Drawing Center in New York and the Jewish Museum of New York
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1992· 1 entry
And 1993, retrospective exhibitions were held in New Haven, Valencia and Paris
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1979· 1 entry
Three separate iterations of an Eva Hesse retrospective were held, entitled Eva Hesse: Sculpture
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1970· 1 entry
Died 1970-05-29.
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1965· 2 entries
Began working and experimenting with the unconventional materials that would become characteristic of her output: latex, fiberglass, and plastic
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LeWitt famously counseled a young doubting Eva to "Stop [thinking] and just DO
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1963· 2 entries
Hesse had a one-person show of works on paper at the Allan Stone Gallery on New York's Upper East Side
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Eva Hesse had a one-person show of works on paper at the Allan Stone Gallery on New York's Upper East Side
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1961· 2 entries
Hesse's gouache paintings were exhibited in Brooklyn Museum's 21st International Watercolor Biennial
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Hesse met and married sculptor Tom Doyle (1928–2016); they divorced in 1966
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1959· 1 entry
Received her BA from Yale University
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1952· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Pratt Institute of Design
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1944· 1 entry
Hesse's parents separated; her father remarried in 1945 and her mother killed herself in 1946
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1939· 1 entry
Emigrated to New York City where they settled into Manhattan's Washington Heights
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-01-11.
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