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May 11, 2021 · Sophie Taeuber-Arp blurred the boundaries between fine art and applied art, but died early without the recognition she deserved. A major new exhibition aims to fix that.
Swiss artist, designer of puppets and sets for a production that signalled the 20th century avant-garde in theatre. Sophie Taeuber-Arp originally specialized in textile design at the Stauffacher school in St. Gallen (Saint-Gall).
Nov 26, 2021 · The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp The Swiss artist did it all — paintings and puppets, sculpture and tapestry — and was underestimated because of it. At MoMA she joins the...
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Arts Collection. Courtesy Museum. für Gestaltung Zürich, ZHdK. Curatorial Assistant, Laura Braverman: The marionettes broke away from folk traditions in puppet making, in that puppets at the time were supposed to be as lifelike as possible.
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a key figure in many of the important movements of the pre-World War II art scene in Europe, and was one of the most active figures around the Café Voltaire in Zurich. She dedicated her career to breaking down static, artificial boundaries between genres and forms, and celebrating the creative energy such liberation released....
Taeuber-Arp was one of the signers of the Dada Manifesto and remained dedicated to the ideas of Dadathroughout her career. She applied Dada to a wide range of forms, fully embracing the utopian imp...Taeuber-Arp desired to break down the boundaries between applied and fine arts. She translated principles from one genre into another, creating beautiful and groundbreaking hybrids. For example, he...She also explored the relationship between fine art and performance - working with dance, movement and masks. She sought to bring the ideas of Dada and Abstraction to dance and puppetry, contrastin...Childhood
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber was the fifth child in a middle-class Prussian family. Her father, Emil Taeuber, was a pharmacist who died of tuberculosis when Taeuber-Arp was still a child. Her mother, Sophie Taeuber-Krusi, opened a Bed and Breakfast in Trogen, Switzerland to support the family.
Early Training
Taeuber studied drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Saint Gallen, Switzerland from 1908 to 1910, but desired exposure to a wider range of ideas, and headed to Germany to study textile design. In Germany, her schooling reflected her interest in diverse fields and her unhappiness with strict boundaries and programs, as she bounced back and forth between the Teaching and Experimental Studio for Applied and Liberal Arts in Munich and the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg. She studied not onl...
Mature Period
By 1915, she had returned to Zurich where her sister lived. She began to create non-representational paintings and sculptures, influenced by her training in textile design and Cubism. At the same time, she continued her work in the applied arts and her study of modern dance. The French artist and poet Hans Arphad taken refuge in Switzerland because of the First World War, and the two met in the fall of 1915. They began collaborating on artistic works, and romance followed. Her life at this ti...
- Swiss
- January 19, 1889
- Davos, Switzerland
- January 13, 1943
Nov 21, 2021 · Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (; 19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.
Jul 15, 2021 · Living in the shadow of two world wars, the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp saw art as ‘a source of solace, a symbol of possibility, a space of improvisation’. As her first UK retrospective comes to Tate, one writer surveys the boundary-breaking embroideries, paintings, sculptures, magazines, puppets and mysterious dada objects that made ...
