Article, 2017, Alain Vircondelet
Yves Klein and Rotraut Uecker: a blinding evidence
"Rotraut Uecker (born in 1938) has always considered - even decades after the death of her husband - that their encounter was a love at first sight organized by fate, by chance arranged by cosmic forces that surpassed them, but in which both believed.When Yves Klein (1928-1962) meets the young woman for the first time, she is not yet twenty. Originally from East Germany, she is the sister of Gunther Uecker, nine years her elder, and it is thanks to him that she will get in touch with Klein. He...