Jean Arp
German-French Dadaist and abstract artist
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Jean Arp was a French-German sculptor, painter, and collagist who could make anything into art.[1] He was born Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp in Strasbourg during German control of Alsace-Lorraine.[2] After World War I ended and Alsace–Lorraine was returned to France, the French legal system required Arp to take a French name, so he became Jean Arp legally, though he still called himself "Hans" when using German.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp
- Born
- 16 September 1886
- Birthplace
- Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
- Died
- 7 June 1966
- Place of death
- Basel, Switzerland
- Field
- Sculpture, painting
- Training
- Académie Julian
- Movement
- Abstraction-Création
- Surrealism
- Dada
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Arp published his first poetry in Paris in 1904 after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg.[3] He studied at the Weimarer Kunstschule from 1905 to 1907 and attended the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908.[3] In 1911 he co-founded the first modern art alliance in Switzerland, Der Moderne Bund.[1] Arp pretended to be mentally ill to avoid German military conscription in Zürich.[4]
Arp broke with the Surrealist movement in 1931 to found Abstraction-Création.[5] Arp relocated to Switzerland in 1915 because that country remained neutral during the war.[4]
What the cited sources add
It describes him as "something of a one-man movement" who could make anything into art.[1] The same source states Arp began studying art in Strasbourg, transferred to Weimar, and completed his schooling in Paris.[1]
References
- "Hans Arp". facts only, no text reused. theartstory.org
- Wikipedia, "Jean Arp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Robertson, "Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor", Yale University Press, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Jean Arp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hans Arp"; Jean Arp Museum of Modern Art, New York (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Jean Arp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hans Richter", quoted in Dada XYZ, 1948; archived in the Dada Painters & Poets: Anthology (2nd edition, 1981), edited by Robert Motherwell; Russell, "Jean Arp – A Pioneer Worthy of Honor", The New York Times, 10 August 1986 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Jean Arp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Trousse d'un Da(da), 1921, MNAM, Paris; Michael Kimmelman (4 May 1990), The Power of Whimsy: Jean Arp's Later Work The New York Times.; Jean Arp, Head and Shell (Tête et coquille) (ca. 1933) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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