page_title: Edith Hillinger
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Edith Hillinger / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: 2010 20.5” x 30”
context_page_description: Edith Hillinger is a California artist who primarily creates watercolor paintings and mixed media collages. She was born in 1933 in Berlin, Germany. In 1937, her family fled to Turkey, where they lived in Istanbul and Ankara. In 1948, the family moved to New York, New York, where Hillinger eventually began her formal art education at Cooper Union. She now lives and works in Berkeley, California.
  She is the daughter of architect Franz Hillinger.
context_section_description: Though Hillinger draws inspiration from botanical and natural scenes, her career has seen her work tend more toward abstraction. Her work also takes inspiration from her formative experiences in different countries, implying "whole cultural histories through expression that is utterly personal."  Her collage work has been noted to recall Picasso's graphic work, as well as the paintings of Paul Klee. This work can be seen as a synthesis of the influences of her youth, the adorned surfaces of Turkey and the minimal forms of the Bauhaus.
caption: Aerial View
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