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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Philip Oltermann European culture editor

‘It was love at first sight, again’: Prague exhibition celebrates work of pair at heart of Europe’s avant garde

Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman in New York
Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman in New York in 1964. An exhibition of their artworks has opened in Prague. Photograph: Waintrob-Budd/Prague Kunsthalle

They created some of the most riveting abstract art of the 20th century, fought Nazis with the gun and the pen, married, divorced and married again. Now the continent-spanning and nigh-forgotten love story of the Burton-Tayloresque couple at the heart of the European avant garde is finally being given its due at a major art institution.

And We’ll Never Be Parted, exhibiting at Prague’s Kunsthalle gallery, is the first show to reunite the Norwegian painter Anna-Eva Bergman and German-born Hans Hartung.

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