Hans Arp
German-French sculptor and painter
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, 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. Wikipedia
Born: September 16, 1886, Strasbourg, France
Died: June 7, 1966 (age 79 years), Basel, Switzerland
Periods: Surrealism, Dada, Abstract art, and more
Known for: Sculpture, painting
Spouse: Marguerite Hagenbach (m. 1959–1966) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (m. 1922–1943)
Parents: Marie Joséphine Koeberlé and Jürgen Peter Wilhelm Arp
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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.
b. 1886, Strassburg, Germany (today Strasbourg, France); d. 1966, Basel. Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg.
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A poet, painter and sculptor, the man known as Jean Arp by some and Hans Arp by others was 'one of the most innovative and inexhaustible artists of his time'.
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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.
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 ...
Read about the art and life of Jean Arp, a multi-disciplinary pioneering force in the development of Dadaism and other major avant-garde art movements.
Arp was a gifted poet and painter, though it's as a sculptor that he's best remembered — for his reliefs, and his smoothly rounded, biomorphic forms, above all.