About the person

born 1967 in Dresden
died 2019 in Berlin

After graduating from high school, Eberhard Havekost did an apprenticeship as a stonemason in the former GDR. In 1989 he fled to the West via Budapest and lived in Frankfurt am Main. In 1991 he decided to study at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, where he became a master student of Ralf Kerbach in 1997. In 2010 he took up the professorship of painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he worked until his death.

Works by Eberhard Havekost can be found in the collections of the Rubell Family Collection, the Tate London, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.