Eva Hesse Page #4

what happens on canvas in the moment'?

BARBARA BROWN". When she was

painting, she was very blocked.

But her early collages

were extraordinary. I mean,

she could draw like nobody.

Anytime she drew anything,

ll was really beautiful.

HESSE". For me,

painting has become that, making art,

painting a painting.

The history, the tradition

is too much there.

I Want to be surprised.

I will continue drawing,

push the individuality of them,

even though they go against

every major trend.

F*** that.

So did everyone I admire.

DOYLE". Eva was working at a jewelry

store on Bleecker Street

and I got a job teaching

at the New School.

And that's one of the two jobs I had,

and that's how we were

sort of living on that.

And then what happened

was Arnold Rudlinger,

the director the Kunstverein,

and a bunch of German collectors

saw my stone sculptures.

Rudlinger was going to

give me a show in Basel.

He said, "How do you

move these things?"

I said, "Well, you have to

build a box and lala..."

And Scheidt said, Look, we have

stone very much like that.

"Why don't you come to

Germany and, you know,

"you can make the sculpture in Germany and

we'll send it to Switzerland, you know?"

And I said, "Yeah, I would do that."

Eva was sort of scared

about going there, you know,

because of what happened...

had happened to her family.

HESSE:
I sit here now

panicked and crying.

The pressure of leaving

Hes heavy on me.

I said, "Look, it's a good time

to be out of New York."

Pop art is a big thing, now.

We'll lei that die down.

And Scheidt was going to give me

a salary and everything, you know.

We won't have to work.

You know, we'll just work on our work.

HONIG:
I remember her saying

that she was frightened

of going back to this place

where she had suffered so much.

CHARASH". But Sol Lewitt,

a close friend, a close confidante,

encouraged her, saying that

she would be well served

to get out of the New York art scene.

She would be able to work

in a much freer manner.

HESSE". Dear Mr. Scheidt,

I have begun to make

preparations for our trip,

so the whole thing is

becoming very real for us.

It was Tom's opportunity.

It was Tom who had been

asked to go to Germany.

H was very hard for her.

But Eva wouldn't let

an opportunity go by.

Eva was a risk taker.

Though Eva was a little bit

more of a wife at that point,

but all that would change.

(TURBINES WHOOSHING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

SUSSMAN:
Tom and Eva were

set up in Kettwig,

this town that had

these textile factories

that had been in the family of

Arnard Scheidt for hundreds of years.

Where Eva and Tom lived

were over there,

that was the so-called...

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