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Long neglected by art historians, Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–87) was a painter of major importance who invested her work with an almost mystical ambition. The story of her life, told for the first time in this meticulously researched biography, is extraordinary: a Norwegian childhood that was constantly overshadowed by fear; a bohemian and adventurous youth that spanned much of Europe; a career as an illustrator; encounters in Nazi Germany; increasingly severe health problems; three marriages, two of which were to the same man (Bergman’s fellow artist Hans Hartung); and a tragic end in the splendour of their villa in Antibes. But above all Bergman’s was a life dedicated to creation, often ...
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Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) is regarded as one of the best Norwegian painters of the 20th century, she was long overshadowed by her husband, the painter Hans Hartung (1904 – 1989). She combines the experience of the Nordic landscape and light to form abstract pictures with an original design vocabulary. For the first time in a long while, the late works of the artist, created from 1973 until her death in Antibes, are presented in Germany in a concentrated selection of around 20 paintings.--Gallery website.