Biography of Hans Arp A restless thinker and a nomad, Arp was born into circumstances of uncertainty that shaped his path as an artist. Arp is a transitional figure.
Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. 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 were motivated by an interest in harnessing unconscious thought and parodying established ideas.
View Jean (Hans) Arp’s 4,123 artworks on artnet. Hans (Jean) Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck were among the original contributors to the Cabaret Voltaire. Arp was involved in Zurich Dada from the outset, and like many of his fellow Dadaists was an acknowledged talent in both literature and the visual arts. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
As the artist Hans Arp later wrote:. Poète, peintre et sculpteur, Hans Arp fut successivement dadaïste, surréaliste, abstrait. See available prints and multiples, sculpture, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Hans (Jean) Arp (16 de septiembre de 1887-7 de junio de 1966) fue un escultor, poeta y pintor francoalemán. The Cabaret was a meeting spot for the more radical avant-garde artists.
Mais la diversité n'est pas la dissipation, ni l'adhésion la servitude : par le caractère naturel et spontané de sa veine créatrice, Arp s'est gardé de l'emprise des mouvements auxquels il a participé.
Nació en Estrasburgo, durante el breve período siguiente a la guerra franco-prusiana, cuando la zona era conocida como Alsacia-Lorena, después de haber sido devuelta a Alemania por parte de Francia. Fue uno de los fundadores del movimiento conocido como Dadaísmo. As one of the founders of Dada, and subsequently an active participant in Surrealism, his work forms a link between these two major movements of the early-20 th century. The latter are no more than only names in the mo Originaire de Strasbourg, région où se mêlent deux cultur of dadaism: Hans Arp (1886—1966) played the most important part as a poet and as an artist in all dada-activities, the part Otto van Rees (1884— 1957) and his wife A. C. van Rees-Dutilh (1876—1959) played, was con siderably less important. A cross between a nightclub and an arts center, artists could exhibit their work there among cutting-edge poetry, music, and dance.
Dada artists felt the war called into question every aspect of a society capable of starting and then prolonging it – including its art. Jean (Hans) Arp was a French-German artist and poet known as a founding member of Dadaism. Born in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, Jean (Hans) Arp was classified as an enemy alien by Germany when war broke out in 1914, and the following year took refuge in Switzerland. Jean Hans Arp, Dadaism... cut and pasted colored paper, MoMa Hoch, Dada... collage, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berl… Schwitters, Dada... collage and found objects, Staatsgalerie, Stu… Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts.