Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970)
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Eva Hesse was a German-American artist, known for her innovative use of sculptural materials including plastics and fiberglass. Hesse was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany. Do to unsafe conditions imposed by Nazis, Hesse and her sister left Germany, living in the Netherlands and England before settling in the United States.
Hesse and her family set-up a new life in New York City, and Hesse enrolled at New York’s School of Industrial Art. Hesse continued to study Pratt Institute, Cooper Union and Yale School of Art and Architecture. In 1961 Hesse married a sculptor, Tom Doyle, with whom she exhibited with at the Art Students League of New York. The couple went on to work together in an abandoned textile mill in Germany, making pieces out of materials found in the factory.
By 1965 Hesse decided to return to New York and began making sculptural pieces with fiberglass, plastics and latex. Hesse exhibited with other 1960s “post-minimal” artists and began teaching at the School of Visual Arts. In Hesse’s lifetime she only had one solo show, which was held at the Fischbach Gallery and was entitled “Chain Polymers”.
Since Hesse’s death there have been numerous exhibits and retrospectives of her work in international museums and art centers. Hesse has been represented by The Jewish Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum. Do you think you own a piece by Eva Hesse? Contact us. We are the Hesse experts.