Eve Gramatzki
1935 (Königsberg) / 2003 (Paris)
Artist's gallery
Eve Gramatzki was born in 1935 in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia. From a young age, she was deeply affected by the war and the invasion of her city, which was still part of Germany at the time. She studied Fine Art in Hamburg until 1961, where she was particularly influenced by the paintings of the German artist Caspar David Friedrich. The trials of her personal history, marked by exile and war, shaped her entire body of work. She moved to France in 1962, where she became part of the Parisian gallery scene, and was noticed and supported from the early 1960s onwards by Iris Clert, a gallery owner who had notably organised exhibitions by Yves Klein and Arman.
Initially associated with the hyperrealist movement, Gramatzki moved towards a form of abstraction. Her art is also marked by the influence of Constructivism and the Bauhaus. Prior to her works on paper, Gramatzki worked with objects and textiles. The artist draws inspiration from these movements and realist trends, which underpin the abstraction in her work. Her work aims to bring out textures, the sensory, the material and lived experience, in a quest to restore the object’s presence.
Eve Gramatzki’s work is now held in several public collections, notably at the National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou and in the collections of Paris Musées.
Artist's gallery
Eve Gramatzki was born in 1935 in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia. From a young age, she was deeply affected by the war and the invasion of her city, which was still part of Germany at the time. She studied Fine Art in Hamburg until 1961, where she was particularly influenced by the paintings of the German artist Caspar David Friedrich. The trials of her personal history, marked by exile and war, shaped her entire body of work. She moved to France in 1962, where she became part of the Parisian gallery scene, and was noticed and supported from the early 1960s onwards by Iris Clert, a gallery owner who had notably organised exhibitions by Yves Klein and Arman.
Initially associated with the hyperrealist movement, Gramatzki moved towards a form of abstraction. Her art is also marked by the influence of Constructivism and the Bauhaus. Prior to her works on paper, Gramatzki worked with objects and textiles. The artist draws inspiration from these movements and realist trends, which underpin the abstraction in her work. Her work aims to bring out textures, the sensory, the material and lived experience, in a quest to restore the object’s presence.
Eve Gramatzki’s work is now held in several public collections, notably at the National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou and in the collections of Paris Musées.
