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Eva Hesse
Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960's.



















16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA

20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

26 August 1977, London, England, UK


23 June 1972, Southfield, Michigan, USA


April 29, 2016
A superb documentary on a gifted and eccentric female artist who hit her high stride in the 1960s.
April 27, 2016
Entertaining, informative and beautifully rendered documentary homage to the late-20th-century artist [Eva Hesse].
April 26, 2016
Hesse's interest was more a matter of process than product. Begleiter's movie picks up the next two sentences to give Hesse the poignant existential credo that serves as her last word. "Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter."
June 07, 2016
Moving, incisive... chronicles the short life and decade-long career of the German-American sculptor and denizen of the 1960s art world with impressive command of both the scene Hesse found herself in, as well as the methods that led to [her] artwork.
June 09, 2016
Marcie Begleiter directed this warm documentary about the short, extraordinary life of the title artist, who died at age 34 of a brain tumor.
August 25, 2016
Aside from her laudable work ethos, Hesse never comes across as an interesting documentary subject.
May 12, 2016
A vibrant, affecting piece of filmmaking that's sure to widen Hesse's following.
August 26, 2016
"Eva Hesse" is a remarkable film about an even more remarkable artist, a woman who playfully and resolutely turned the world of sculpture inside out.
June 03, 2016
It's a measure of Begleiter's documentary skills and her commitment to Hesse's work and vivid presence that such scant materials have resulted in a portrait that is so lively, intelligent, and moving.
July 28, 2016
Unique and satisfying ...
May 12, 2016
Hesse's work has taken its place as a seminal part of 20th-century art, and this indispensable film will be shining a light on it, and her, for a long time to come.
March 03, 2017
Overstuffed with biographical details and taking-head interviews with friends and hangers-on, it's over-didactic and dull.