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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach. Signature. 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
Jean (Hans) Arp was a French-German artist and poet known as a founding member of Dadaism. His abstract collages, paintings, and sculptures of organic forms were motivated by an interest in harnessing unconscious thought and parodying established ideas. “A painting or sculpture not modeled on any real object is every bit as concrete and ...
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Jean (Hans) Arp studied at the Kunst Schule in Weimar, then at the Académie Julian in Paris, ultimately moving to Munich in 1912. Mainly focused on paintings and swept into the growing modernism movement, he would become a founding member of Moderne Bund in Lucerne from 1911-1913.
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 20th century. Arp was of French Alsatian and German ancestry, and, thus, his parents ...
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Torso, Navel, Mustache-Flower. Jean Arp French, born Germany. 1930. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 909. Arp is best known for his multilayered, painted wood reliefs. By the time Arp created this work, he had already perfected his assemblage technique: he drew designs on cardboard templates and had a carpenter execute them in wood.
Jean (Hans) Arp. Also known as. Hans Arp, Hans (Jean) Arp, Khans Arp, Jean Arp. Date of birth. 1887. Date of death. 1966. See all 22 artworks ›.
In his later years Arp primarily produced three-dimensional sculptures that he modeled in plaster and translated into stone and bronze. Plaster enabled Arp to experiment with new, unique forms, such as the amoebalike shapes in Configuration in Serpentine Movements. Referring to his biomorphic art as "l’art concret" (concrete art), Arp ...
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