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Jean Hans Arp

Jean (Hans) Arp (1886/87 - 1966) was active/lived in France, Switzerland.  Jean Hans Arp is known for Abstract sculpture, installation, painting.

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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 first Autumn Exhibition.

He returned to Paris in 1914 and became friendly with Picasso, Modig   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11842 characters.]  Artist bio

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