E. R. Nele: E. R. Nele - Erinnerungssee, Gebunden

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Sculptor, graphic artist, goldsmith, and designer E. R. Nele was born in Berlin in 1932. Daughter of Arnold Bode, the painter-branded "degenerate"-and founder of documenta in Kassel, her engagement with National Socialist crimes, as well as with persecution, flight, and exile, remained a defining facet of her art. Often site-specific, her works have not only been featured in many exhibitions but have also left their mark on public space-such as the memorial Die Rampe (The Ramp, 1985) in Kassel. Friends and family were a decisive influence on both her life and her art, as is reflected in the publication's title Erinnerungssee (Lake of Memories), which the artist chose herself. Having trained in London, Paris, and Berlin, and lived in Munich, Zurich, and finally Frankfurt am Main, she is an artist with a truly European spirit. Her works are never art for art's sake; they display a relevance that can be unsettling but is always moving.

• Autobiography of artist E. R. Nele, compiled from her own notes
• Encounters with Lynn Chadwick, Peggy Guggenheim, Nigel Henderson, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, K. R. Sonderborg, Jean Tinguely, and many others