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Object: Breakfast in Fur (1936) My Nurse (1936) Giacometti's Ear (1933) Movement: Surrealism, Conceptualism: Awards: Art Award of the City of Basel
- 15 November 1985 (aged 72), Basel, Switzerland
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Basel School of Arts and Crafts
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Nov 23, 2022 · Beauty is beast, and beast, beauty. Oppenheim fights back against womanhood’s constraints with knife-edged wit and an irascible cackle. ‘Ma Gouvernante — My Nurse — Mein Kindermädchen’...
- Ariella Budick
May 15, 2014 · All hyperbolic compliments aside, Rebecca Horn and Méret Oppenheim’s shared enthusiasm for bondage-inspired works—whether it’s Horn’s Pencil Mask (1972) or Oppenheim’s My Nurse (1936)—suggests not only a mutual appreciation for the Marquis’ particular style, but also a shared infatuation with their older female caretakers and ...
June 28, 1996. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Oppenheim, Méret (1913–1985)Swiss-German painter and sculptor. Name variations: Meret Oppenheim. Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1913; died in Switzerland in 1985 (some sources cite 1986); studied briefly at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Jan 11, 2023 · January 11, 2023 11:45am. Méret Oppenheim, New Stars (Neue Sterne), 1977–82. Kunstmuseum Bern. There may never have been an artist who painted self-portraits quite as strange as Méret...
- Alex Greenberger
Object ("The Luncheon in Fur"), known in English as Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur, is a 1936 sculpture by the surrealist Méret Oppenheim, consisting of a fur -covered teacup, saucer and spoon. The work, which originated in a conversation in a Paris cafe, is the most frequently-cited example of sculpture in the surrealist movement.
Meret (or Méret) Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Early life. Meret Oppenheim was born on 6 October 1913 in Berlin. She was named after Meretlein, a wild child who lives in the woods, from the novel Green Henry by Gottfried Keller.
