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Anna-Eva Bergman

"Through knoledge ans wisdom, one can guess what hides behind."

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Notes of biography

However she is born in Stockholm in 1909, Anna Eva Bergman is Norwegian. She studied in Oslo (1926-1928), initially to the Academy of the applied arts, then to the Beaux-Arts. She studied then in Vienna and in Paris (1929) in Andre Lhote’s atelier. This same year, she married Hans Hartung, in Dresden. She lived in various countries (Italy, Spain, France). Influenced by Munch, she painted expressionists works (nude, landscapes).
Anna Eva Bergman came back to Norway in 1939; she stopped painting during almost 10 years because of health troubles. This long stop made her evolve from the figuration to the abstraction. She first got a lot of difficulties to open this new chapter in her work, going until destroying several of her canvases (1948-1950) before discovering a personal style.
The artist settled down in France in 1952 (Paris). She painted, engraved (woodcuts, etchings), she meditated, enters in contemplation of the world, leans her heart on the destiny of the man. Her work is bare, voluntarily, sticking to simple subjects and forms: trees, walls, moons, suns, sea, boats. The landscapes are hardly suggested by geometries which fill up the canvas space in dark tone. The restraints forms, where often the black dominated, became animated by the metallic paints (gold or money) integration; this integration multiplied the effects and reflections, prolonging the work chromatic possibilities. Eva Bergman continued this way; she added to her works silver or gold sheets, then covered them partially with colors, colors that she incised or scratched. The landscapes disappeared little by little and the artist devoted only to pure abstraction.
These early works were exhibited since 1931 (Oslo), but her first true personal exhibition was organised in this same city in 1950; Anna Eva Bergman exhibited regularly in Paris (galleries, Salons, biennial), in France more generally and abroad (Italy, Norway, Brasil, etc).
She died in Antibes in 1987, city where she lived since 1970, city where she exhibited (Picasso Museum, 1986).

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
* « L'estampe de Anna-Eva Bergman », version en ligne, Fondation Hartung-Bergman et Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design d’Oslo, 2017 All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • «Anna-Eva Bergman», D. Aubier, Ed G. Fall, 1964
  • «Anna Eva Bergman», L. Mallé, Cat. d'expo, Musée Civico, Ed. G.A.M. Torino, 1967
  • «Hans Hartung, Anna-E. Bergman», Collectif, Ed. Musée de la poste, Paris, 1981
  • «Anna-Eva Bergman», D. Giraudy et O. H. Moe, Musée Picasso, Antibes, 1986
  • «Anna-Eva Bergman, vie et oeuvre», O. H. Moe, Dreyer, 1990
  • «Anna-Eva Bergman», A. Claustres, Fondation Hartung-Bergman, 2000
  • «Mémoire, miroir, A.E. Bergman et le dessin», cat d'expo, Oslo , 2002
  • «Anna-Eva Bergman», C. Lamothe, Ed. Presses du réel, 2011
  • «A.-E. Bergman, l'atelier d'Antibes, 1973-1987», cat d'expo, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2017
To read from the artist :
  • No books referenced.
Website :
www.fondationhartungbergman.fr

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Art movements

+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
All art movements

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