If You Escaped Nazi Germany, What Would You Do with Your One Precious Life? At 88, Edith Hillinger Is Still Making Art

We rush to visit Edith Hillinger at her garden studio inside the West Berkeley house she built in the 1990s. Hillinger is 88 years old and studied at New York’s Cooper Union College in the 1960s. She draws from her childhood experiences as a refugee in Ankara, Turkey, to create obscenely masterful full-scale collages and paintings. She quotes Rilke! She tells us about fleeing Nazi Germany, her marriage, the women’s movement (and how it helped her get a divorce), and what it’s like to be an accomplished female artist in her later years. We fête her.

Edith's website
Edith on Wikipedia
Edith on Instagram

Read more about Edith's father, Franz Hillinger, on Wikipedia

About White Terror in Hungary 

Take a look at the Women in the Arts Foundation 

Find out more about the Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project here

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Music at 6'50" and 18' is from the album The Long Embrace by Vega Victoria

Our next crush! Ghent based performance duo BRIK TU-TOK

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