Hella De Santarossa

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Hella De Santarossa (* 1949 in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth) is a German painter, glass artist, sculptor, performance artist, and filmmaker. Her works are attributed to the neo-expressionism of the Junge Wilde (Young Wild Ones) and can be found in the Berlin Reichstag, public spaces, churches, museums, and art collections, among other places. She lives and works as a freelance cross-art artist in Berlin.
She studied free painting at the University of the Arts (West Berlin) and was a master student of Professor Karl-Horst Hödicke.
She was a founding member of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in 1978 and was artist chairwoman of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 1982 to 1992.
“These are all images of memory,” she says of her work. They often have to do with dance and movement, with the passion and ecstasy of life.”