Eva Aeppli
{{Short description|Swiss artist}}
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| name = Eva Aeppli
| image = Photo of Eva Aeppli.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date |1925|5|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Zofingen, Switzerland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|5|4|1925|5|2}}
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- {{marriage|Hans Leu
|1946|1949|end=divorced}} - {{marriage|Jean Tinguely
|1951|1960|end=divorced}} - {{marriage|Samuel Mercer
|1962|2013}}
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| movement = Avant-garde
| works = in museums:{{plainlist|
- Moderna Museet
- Musée National d'Art Moderne
- Kunstmuseum Solothurn
- Omaha, Nebraska (USA) Collection Old Omaha Association
- Museum of Modern Art Vienna MUMOK
- Kunsthaus Zurich
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| patrons = Pontus Hultén
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}}Eva Aeppli (2 May 1925 – 4 May 2015) was a Swiss artist.
Personal life
Born on 2 May 1925 in Zofingen, Switzerland,{{cite web |title=Aeppli, Eva |url=https://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4000188&lng=en |website=SIKART Dictionary and database |access-date=4 December 2021}} Aeppli spent her childhood in Basel where she attended the School of Decorative Arts. Her father was a Waldorf educator and child development author, Willi Aeppli, who worked with Rudolf Steiner.Rekas, Jane Leu, "My Janeaology" http://myjaneaology.blogspot.com/2010/06/ggp-aeppli.html
She moved to France in 1952 with her second husband, the sculptor Jean Tinguely.Ravo, Nick (1 September 1991) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DC1E3FF932A3575AC0A967958260 Jean Tinguely, Playful Sculptor of Scrap Contraptions, Dies at 66]. The New York Times. Subsequently, she began her artistic career as a painter in Paris. From 1954 to 1960 Aeppli and Tinguely shared a living and working space, at the Impasse Ronsin, opposite Constantin Brâncuși's which had been there since 1916.Nicole Schweizer 'An Encounter with Eva Aeppli's Works : An Inscription in (Art) History' vol.7 Jan 2001 n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal pp.53-63 They belonged to the Parisian avantgarde with other artists Daniel Spoerri, Yves Klein and Niki de Saint-Phalle. Eva Aeppli became interested in sculpting figurines in textile and bronze.Chauvy, Laurence (26 January 2006) [http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/eva-aeppli--livres-de-vie-et-danse-des-morts/4976348 Eva Aeppli, livres de vie et danse des morts]. SWI SwissInfo.
In 1975, she discovered astrology thanks to Jacques Berthon and the painter Eric Leraille. Fifteen years later, she decided to combat poverty, oppression and ignorance by creating the Myrrahkir Foundation. Aeppli lived until the age of 90.Chauvy, Lawrence (5 May 2015) [http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/9e4b6f94-f28e-11e4-bb1f-074820583190/Eva_Aeppli_rejoint_Jean_Tinguely Eva Aeppli rejoint Jean Tinguely] Le Temps.(M4 ay 2015) [http://www.24heures.ch/culture/figure-artistique-suissesse-eva-aeppli-decedee/story/15415287 Figure artistique, la Suissesse Eva Aeppli est décédée] 24 Heures. Aeppli died on 4 May 2015 in Honfleur, France.
Aeppli's first child, with architect Hans Leu, was Felix Leu (1945).Rekas, Jane Leu, "My Janealogy blog", http://myjaneaology.blogspot.com/search/label/my%20father Her grandchildren are therapist Jane Leu Rekas, tattooist Filip Leu, former model Ama Leu, artist Aia Leu and musician Ajja Leu.Leu, Aia. The Art of the Leu Family, Seedpress, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0-9551109-2-4}}. (p. 10) Aeppli's daughter with Jean Tinguely is painter Miriam Tinguely.Eichenberger, Isabelle (6 February 2012) [http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/culture/Miriam_Tinguely,_artiste_qui_a_su_se_faire_un_prenom.html?cid=32075658 Miriam Tinguely, artiste qui a su se faire un prénom]. SWI SwissInfo.
References
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External links
- {{HDS|22128}}
- [https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/eva-aeppli/ Eva Aeppli] on AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
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Category:20th-century Swiss painters
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Category:21st-century Swiss women painters