Eva Backofen

Eva Backofen (born 31 October 1949 in Meissen; between 1980 and 2007 Eva Anderson) is a German freelance graphic artist and sculptor living and working since 1980 in Dresden.

Life Provenance, education and training Eva Backofen was born in Meissen (a short distance down-river of Dresden. between 1956 and 1968 in Berlin-Köpenick. Eva Backofen had been born in the same month as the formal launch of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the separate German state in which she lived and made her life till reunification in 1990. The country had embarked on a switch to a system of comprehensive secondary schools at the end of the 1950s, and in 1964 Backofen moved on to the "EOS Berlin-Mitte" (formerly the "Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster"), a four hundred year old former church secondary school which seems to have been in the process of switching to a less classical approach at the time. Here, in 1968, She concluded her time at the Fine Arts Academy under the supervision of Gerd Jaeger, receiving her degree in 1980. She supported herself as a freelance sculptor in Dresden ) At some point during the 1980s the close relationship with Anderson seems to have ended, however, since after he crossed to West Berlin in 1986