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Jean Arp

Born

in Strasbourg, Alsace

September 16, 1886

Died

June 07, 1966

Genre

Art, Poetry

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Alsatian artist Jean Arp or Hans Arp, particularly noted for his abstract reliefs and three-dimensional sculptures, founded of Dada.

This German-French painter and poet used other media, such as torn and pasted paper.

Arp spoke in German and then referred as "Hans" and in French then referred as "Jean." Following the war, France ceded the area, known as Lorraine, to Germany in 1871; afterward, a French mother in Strasbourg bore this son to a German father during the period.

He left the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg in 1904, afterward went to Paris, and published his poetry for the first time. Arp from 1905 to 1907 studied at the Kunstschule in Weimar, Germany, and in 1908 went back to Paris and attended the Académie Julian.

Arp, a Alsatian artist Jean Arp or Hans Arp, particularly noted for his abstract reliefs and three-dimensional sculptures, founded of Dada.

This German-French painter and poet used other media, such as torn and pasted paper.

Arp spoke in German and then referred as "Hans" and in French then referred as "Jean." Following the war, France ceded the area, known as Lorraine, to Germany in 1871; afterward, a French mother in Strasbourg bore this son to a German father during the period.

He left the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg in 1904, afterward went to Paris, and published his poetry for the first time. Arp from 1905 to 1907 studied at the Kunstschule in Weimar, Germany, and in 1908 went back to Paris and attended the Académie Julian.

Arp, a member of the Moderne Bund in Lucerne, joined in their exhibitions from 1911 to 1913. In 1912, he went to Munich and called on Wassily Kandinsky, who encouraged his researches; he exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group. Later in that year, he took in a major exhibition in Zürich alongside Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay, and Kandinsky. In Berlin in 1913, Herwarth Walden, the dealer and magazine editor at that time of the most powerful figures in the European avant-garde, took him.

Following the return to France at the end of World War I, law determined his name, Jean.

In 1915, he moved to Switzerland to take advantage of Swiss neutrality. Arp later told the story: he reported to the German consulate and then avoided draft into the Army. People gave him the paperwork, which he took and wrote the date in the first blank. He then wrote the date in every other space as well, then drew a line beneath them, and carefully added them. He then took off all his clothes and went to hand in his paperwork.

In Europe, the fondation Arp in Clamart preserves the atelier, where Arp lived and worked for most of his life; two thousand visitors tour the house in each year. Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, second wife of Arp, started the Fondazione Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach in Locarno, Switzerland. Johannes Wasmuth, the dealer, in 1977 established and dedicated the Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V. to the late Jean Arp in consultation with Marguerite; this entity owns the largest collection of his works and holds the copyright of all his works. From the remote town of Rolandseck, west Germany, it aimed to relocate to a new research center and office in Berlin in 2012 to raise its profile.
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	Arp on Arp: Poems, Essays, Memories (The Documents of 20th-Century Art) 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected French Writings: Poems, Essays, Memoirs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected French Writings: Poems, Essays, Memories 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jours effeuillés : Poèmes, essais, souvenirs, 1920-1965 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Días Deshoajdos by Jean Arp, Jesús Munárriz (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On My Way: Poetry And Essays, 1912-1947 by Jean Arp, Robert Motherwell (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ich bin in der Natur geboren: Gedichte (Sammlung Luchterhand) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jean Arp, 1886 1966: Esculturas, Relieves, Obra Sobre Papel, Tapices: 25 De Febrero/15 De Abril: Museo Español De Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1985 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pépin géant : Jean Arp by Jean Arp, Sophie Curtil really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arp: Line and form by Jean Arp, Walburga Krupp really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
― Jean Arp

tags: noise, silence, technology

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“humour
is water of the afterlife
mixed with the wine of this life”
― Jean Arp

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