Hans (Jean) ARP

Native placeStraßburg, DEU
Birth1886
Dead placeBasel, CHE
Died1966

Biography

Hans Arp was born in Strasbourg (present-day France, then part of the German Empire). In 1911, he formed the Moderne Bund in Switzerland and interacted with avant-garde artists from across Europe. In 1915, in the midst of World War I, he moved to Zurich, where he co-founded the Dada movement the following year with Tristan Tzara and others who sought to challenge conventional ideas of art. While creating works in innovative forms, he was also active in the movement as a poet. During the latter half of the 1920s, Arp participated in the Surrealist movement in Paris. At the beginning of the 1930s, he took part in the formation of the abstract art groups Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création. Starting in the 1930s, he began creating sculptures with rounded organic forms. In 1954, he was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. He died in Basel.

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