Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) was a conceptual artist, considered to be one of the most important and enigmatic figures in postwar German art. In the early 1960s, during a two year stay in New York, Darboven discovered what would become her life-long project: the spatializing and visualization of time manifested in the form of diagram compositions, columns of numbers and constructivist drawings. Embodying LeWitt’s idea of the artist operating “merely as a clerk cataloging the results of the premise,” Darboven developed a handwritten notation system that recalled digital datasets, precursors to the aesthetics of the early computer age