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Hal Busse is one of the most important German artists of the 20th century. She has always remained just as attached to her home in the Neckar Valley as she is to being on the road: She repeatedly traveled to Paris, Venice and the Nile. Hannelore, who has been exhibiting as Hal Busse since 1957, was taught early on by her father, the well-known landscape painter Hermann Busse. She married Klaus Bendixen as an artist. For 70 years, she devoted herself to her art almost every day, focusing on her surroundings, initially mainly the bathers on the Jagst and Kocher rivers, and in her later work on her parents' garden in Heilbronn. Her preferred subjects are vineyards, water and people. The fact that the categories of figurative and abstract play no role for Busse is a novelty in her generation. She tried out countless artistic materials, conjured up the sensual power of color, which she let leap into space in her nail reliefs, and formulated an individual artistic signature in the midst of Art Informel, Constructivism and the ZERO movement. The retrospective on the occasion of her 100th birthday invites you to discover an impressive artist.