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Jean Hans Arp AUCTION RECORDS
1886/87 Strasbourg, Alsace Lorraine, France - 1966 Basel, Switzerland. Known for: Abstract sculpture, installation, painting.
ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and... Read full biography
ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a... Read full biography
ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a romantic mysticism that is essentially German. (He wrote in both languages). He longed to escape from the conventional borders of modern life, into a community of the spirit. He considered realistic art... Read full biography
ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a romantic mysticism that is essentially German. (He wrote in both languages). He longed to escape from the conventional borders of modern life, into a community of the spirit. He considered realistic art absurdly limited and egotistical. In 1904 he studied at the School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg; he took further training in Weimar. In 1908 he traveled to Paris to enroll in the Academie Julian. Arp produced paintings that were almost abstract in... Read full biography
ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a romantic mysticism that is essentially German. (He wrote in both languages). He longed to escape from the conventional borders of modern life, into a community of the spirit. He considered realistic art absurdly limited and egotistical. In 1904 he studied at the School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg; he took further training in Weimar. In 1908 he traveled to Paris to enroll in the Academie Julian. Arp produced paintings that were almost abstract in design. In 1912 he visited Kandinsky and briefly joined the Blaue Reiter; he showed at the... Read full biography
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