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Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
- Sculpture, painting
- Académie Julian
- German
abstract art. Abstraction-Création. Notable Family Members: spouse Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Jean Arp (born September 16, 1887, Strassburg, Germany [now Strasbourg, France]—died June 7, 1966, Basel, Switzerland) was a French sculptor, painter, and poet who was one of the leaders of the European avant-garde in the arts during the first half of the ...
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Directly working on the plaster casts, he was able to create gently curved, organic volumes in a metamorphosis of plastic elements. Arp’s sculptural works have graced major modernist exhibitions, including Cubism and Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at MoMA in 1936-37.
View all 61 artworks. Jean Arp lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French-German Abstract Art and Dada. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- French, German
- September 16, 1886
- Strasbourg, France
- June 7, 1966
Arp created this collage in Zurich in 1916–17, at the geographic and temporal heart of the Dada movement. Profoundly affected by the trauma of modern warfare and the expansion of print media, Arp and his fellow Dadaists sought to radically rethink the very nature of art.
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Biography. Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.
Art and artists. Tickets. Jean (Hans) Arp Untitled (Automatic Drawing) 1917–18, dated 1916. Not on view. Beginning in 1917, Arp's work shifted away from geometric forms toward a more fluid, organic style. During a trip to a Swiss lake resort, Arp was inspired to evoke the branches, stones, roots, and grasses he observed, working with brush and ink.