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NEW YORK: Hermann Hesse at Donahue/Sosinski.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

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From: Art in America
Date: 19981201
Author:Ebony, David

This was the first U.S. exhibition of paintings by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), the German author whose soul-searching novels, such as Steppenwolf, Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game, have sold over 100 million copies in some 50 languages. In his lifetime, the 1946 Nobel Prize winner for literature was world renowned as a writer; less known is the fact that he was intensely involved in watercolor painting for much of his career, beginning at age 40 when he moved to Montagnola, in the Ticino area of the southern Swiss Alps near the Italian border. In that period he suffered a nervous ...

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