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Unica Zurn

Unica Zurn (1916 - 1970) was active/lived in Germany, France.  Unica Zurn is known for Surrealist painting, automatic drawing, photography, watercolor sketches.

Unica Zürn (6 July 1916 – 19 October 1970) was a German author and artist. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry and automatic drawing and for her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer. An exhibition of Bellmer and Zürn's work took place at the Ubu Gallery in New York City in the spring of 2012.

Born Nora Berta Unica Ruth Zürn, Unica was raised in a well-to-do family in Berlin-Grunewald. She idolized her mostly absent father, Willkomm Ralph Paul Zürn (b. 1900), a cavalry officer stationed in Africa (as well as a not particularly successful writer and editor), but had a contentious relationship with her mother, his third wife, Helene Pauline Heerdt. Unica also had an older brother, Horst (b. 1914), who she claimed sexually abused her when she was a young girl. Her parents divorced in 1930 and she left school shortly after.

Zürn began working at the German Film Agency Universum Film AG (UFA) during the Third Reich.  She started as a steno-typist bef   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10474 characters.]  Artist bio

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