A Life Shaped by Displacement and the Body Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure in post-war German art, passed away on September 6, 2024, leaving behind a legacy of intensely personal and profoundly innovative work. Born March 24, 1944, in Michelstadt, Germany, her life was immediately shadowed by the aftermath of conflict and displacement. The experience of growing up in a fractured world, coupled with a childhood spent largely within the confines of boarding schools after the age of nine, instilled in Horn a deep sensitivity to isolation and vulnerability – themes that would become central to he…