About Rebecca Horn's work

German installation artist Rebecca Horn is most famous for her work using her body as a subject. I really enjoyed reading about her life and looking at the images of the installation pieces as well as some video work. Rebecca Horn is not just performance and installation artists, she also writes poetry and all the work is connected together. Drawing is particularly important to the artist as an expression form. Living in Germany after the end of World War II drawing helped the artist to be herself, as they could not speak German and had to learn English and French and move to new places. 

Rebecca Horn went to the Hamburg academy of Fine Arts against her parents wishes, but a year later got a severe lung poisoning (after working with glass fibre without a protection) and had to leave the Academy. During that time her parents died and she felt completely isolated. She walked out of the hospital and kept drawing and working with softer materials whilst lying in bed. It also helped her to break out of her self-imposed isolation and began to create her first body sculptures. Her aim was to quash her "loneliness by communicating through bodily forms."

Her most know work is "Unicorn", "Pencil Mask", "Finger Gloves","Feather Fingers", etc.