Rebecca Horn obituary

German artist who explored personal and cultural trauma through sculpture, film and performanceIn 1967, the artist Rebecca Horn was confined to a German sanatorium for much of the year. On a break from her studies in Hamburg, and making work with toxic glass fibre, she severely damaged her lungs. Bedbound, and as a way of processing the loneliness, Horn made sketches of her own body, adding to which she drew an extraordinary array of appendages, symbols of her own claustrophobia and reliance on