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          Hanne Darboven always dressed well.

        1. William Stewart is a College Fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
        2. An illustrated study of Hanne Darboven's masterwork, the massive Kulturgeschichte (Cultural History ).
        3. Valentin Diaconov reviews an exhibition of drawings, videos, and an installation by artist Hanne Darboven at the Menil Drawing Institute.
        4. William Stewart.

          5. An illustrated study of Hanne Darboven's masterwork, the massive Kulturgeschichte (Cultural History )..

          Hanne Darboven

          German artist (1941–2009)

          Hanne Darboven (29 April 1941 – 9 March 2009) was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.

          Early life and career

          Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich.[1] She grew up in Rönneburg, a southern suburb of Hamburg, as the second of three daughters of Cäsar Darboven and Kirsten Darboven.

          Her father was a successful and well-to-do businessman in Hamburg; the family brand Darboven coffee is well known in Germany.[2]

          Following a brief period in which she studied as a pianist, Darboven studied art with Willem Grimm, Theo Garve and Almir Mavignier at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 1962 to 1965.

          From 1966 to 1968, she lived in New York City, at first in total isolation from the New York art scene. She then moved back to her family home in Hamburg and continued to live and work there among an extraordinary collection of d