Anna-Eva Bergman (29 May 1909 – 24 July 1987) was a Norwegian

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artist. She was a modernist artist and part of the

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. Her abstract paintings were often inspired by nature and based on abstracted motifs.

Biography

Bergman was born in

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, Sweden as the child of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth, and she moved with her mother to Norway. She attended the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (1926–1928). In 1928, she accompanied her mother to Vienna and became a student at the

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. In Paris she met the German abstract expressionist artist

Hans Hartung Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur. Life Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany into an ar ...

(1904–1989). The two were married in 1929, and lived in Paris and in Germany, and later in

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. Problems along with Bergman's failing health led to the couple's divorce in 1939. Bergman returned to Norway and was married to factory owner Fridhjof Lange (1895–1988) from 1944 to 1952. She divorced Lange and in 1957 she was remarried to Hartung. The couple settled in Antibes, France in 1973. She died at

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, France. Bergman's first exhibition was at the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo during 1948. She later had exhibitions at Stockholm, Paris, Nuremberg and Hanover. Her work is included in the collection of the

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. The Foundation Hartung Bergman (''Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman'') at

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maintains a public display of the works of Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman.

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External links

Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman website

Anna-Eva Bergman
at AWARE 1909 births 1987 deaths School of Paris Modern painters Abstract painters Abstract expressionist artists 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian women painters Norwegian expatriates in France {{Norway-painter-stub

Biography

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