Anna Hackel
1864 - c 1920 (BOHEMIA)
ALTHOUGH BORN INTO A FARMING COMMUNITY, ANNA HACKEL (HASKEL)’S COMMITMENT TO SPIRITUALIST BELIEFS LED HER TO ILLUSTRATE MANY HUNDREDS OF IMAGINARY FLORAL DESIGNS. PREDOMINANTLY DATED TO THE 1930S, IT IS THOUGHT THAT HACKEL ONLY COMMENCED HER PRACTICE WHILE IN HER 50S. DESPITE THIS, HER WORK BECAME WIDELY KNOWN AND SHE COMPLETED SEVERAL HUNDRED WORKS BY THE TIME OF HER PASSING.
HACKEL’S WORK IS INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTIONS OF COLLECTION OF MEDIUMISTIC ART (COMA), MUNICH, LA COLLECTION SAINT-ANNE, PARIS, AND OLOMOUC MUSEUM OF ART, OLOMOUC. EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE LA CLÉ DES CHAMPS AT JEU DE PAUME, PARIS (2003), THE MEDIUM’S MEDIUM AT THE GALLERY OF EVERYTHING (2019), FLORAL FANTASIES AT THE WILHELM HACK MUSEUM (2021).
The Botanical Mind, The Camden Art Centre (London) 2020/21
Plants of the Soul: Floral Fantasies between Symbolism and Outsider Art, Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen) 2019
L’art pour l’art – Collection Sainte-Anne, Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Musée Singer-Polignac (Paris) 2015
Eloge de la répétition – Collection Sainte-Anne, Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Musée Singer-Polignac (Paris) 2006
La clé des champs, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris) 2003
THE BOTANICAL MIND, GINA BUENFIELD AND MARTIN CLARK (CAMDEN ART CENTRE) 2020
De l'art des fous à l'art psychopathologique: La collection Sainte-Anne, Dubois, Anne-Marie (Somogy éditions d'art) 2018
