Anna Hackel

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).