A sculptor who celebrated the absurd by joining unlikely objects, Eva Hesse
made pieces with rubber tubing, synthetic resins, cord, cloth, wire,
papier-mache and wood. Many of these works had sexual and organic
imagery and reflected the terrors of her early childhood in Nazi
Germany.
She was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fled the Hitler
regime with her family to become a resident of New York City in 1939
when she was three years old. Her parents divorced shortly after
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