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Jean Arp

Jean or Hans Arp



Birth name	Jean or Hans Arp
Birth	16 September 1866 Strasbourg , Bas-Rhin , then German city ( France )
Deaths	7 June 1966 Basel ( Switzerland )
Nationality	French
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Jean Arp, Hans Arp, born in Strasbourg on 16 September 1886 and died in Basel in Switzerland on 7 June 1966 was a painter, a sculptor and a German poet and French. Co-founder of Dada in Zurich in 1916, he was then close the surrealism. He produced many works of fine art in close collaboration with his wife Sophie Taeuber.

Biography

Birthplace in Strasbourg

The Key to jaquemart, sculpture, instead of the mayor of Mainz

Berger Cloud (1953), sculpture garden of the Krller-Mller Museum , Netherlands

Arp studied decorative arts in Strasbourg , Paris and Weimar , before devoting himself to poetry. It is, however, knowledge of Paul Klee in 1909. It partciper and exhibitions, including that of the Blaue Reiter in 1912. He joined in 1916 , in Zurich and Cologne , in founding the movement Dada. He illustrated several books of "Dada", as the passage of the Transatlantic Benjamin Peret , Twenty Five Poems by Tristan Tzara and a book by Richard Huelsenbeck. He began sculpting in 1917. Close to surreal, 1926 to 1930 , he became a founding member of the group Abstraction-Creation.

On 20 October 1922, he married Sophie Taeuber-Arp that he met in Zurich.

His early works of plaster and marble dating from 1930. He creates painted wood reliefs, collages and embroideries. In 1925 he settled in Meudon , in a studio house with Sophie Taeuber has established itself plans .

His last words were: "I love you all and I'm going to rejoin my Sophie. "

Works

1948: Fleur-mirror at the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld.

Bibliography

Present indications are from Moon Sand, trans. Aimee Bleikasten, Paris, Arfuyen, 2005.

Texts published in German

Der Vogel Selbdritt, Berlin Otto von Holten 1920.
Die Wolkenpumpe, Hanover, Paul Steegemann, 1920.
Der Pyramidenrock, Erlenbach, Zurich, Eugen Rentsch (1924).,
Weisst of Schwarzt of Zurich, Pra, 1930.
Konfiguration, Paris, Poetry & Co., 1930.
Muscheln und Schirmer, Meudon-Val Fleury: Author, 1939.
1924 1925 1926/1943, Bern-Bmplitz, Benteli 1944.
Das ist auch Nur Eine Wolke, Basel, Vineta, 1951 Basel edition, Nesk, 1960.
Wegweiser-Milestones in Meudon-Val Fleuri, Author, 1951, bilingual edition German, French.
Die Engelsschrift, Tbingen: Author, 1952.
Worttrume Sterne und Schwarze, Wiesbaden, Limes 1953.
Behaarte Herzen 0.1923 to 1926, vor der Knige Sintflut 1952-1953, Frankfurt am Main, Meta, 1953.
Auf Einem Bein, Wiesbaden, Limes 1955.
Unsern Tglichen Traum, Zurich, Arche, 1955.
Ohne Worte mit und Anker, Wiesbaden, Limes 1953.
Mondsand, Pfullingen Nesk, 1960.
Zweiklang, Zurich, Arche, 1960.
Sinnende Flammen, Zurich, Arche, 1961.
Logbuch Traumkapitns of Zurich, Arche, 1965.
Gesammelte Gedichte I, P. Schifferli ed. Zrich, Arche / Wiesbaden, Limes 1963.
Gesammelte Gedichte II, P. Schifferli ed. Zrich, Arche / Wiesbaden, Limes 1974.
Gesammelte Gedichte III, A. Bleikasten ed. Zrich, Arche / Munich, Limes, 1984.

Texts published in French

Spots in vacuum, Paris, Librairie Tschann (1937).
Sawdust ranges, Paris, Parisot, 1938. 1981.
Poems without names, Grasse, in the author, 1941.
Laugh Shell, Amsterdam, Vordemberge-Guildewart, 1944.
Le Blanc at the feet of negro, Paris, Fountain, 1945.
Air Headquarters, Paris, Spin, 1946.
The Sailboat in the forest, Paris, Louis Broder, 1957.
Towards white infinity, Lausanne / Paris, La Rose des Vents, 1960.
Sun recercl, Paris Louis Broder, 1966.
Days leafless, Paris, Gallimard, 1966.

French translations of German poems

German poems by Jean Arp have been so far only a few translations:

The Angel and the Rose, Forcalquier, Robert Morel, 1965, trans. Maxime Alexandre.
Logbuch, trans. Aimee Bleikasten, bilingual edition, Paris, ditions Arfuyen , 1983
Moon Sand, trans. Aimee Bleikasten, bilingual edition, Paris, ditions Arfuyen , 2005 Legacy Award Nathan Katz.

Exchange translation of Nathan Katz Heritage Award was awarded to Aimee Bleikasten in 2004 for his translations of poems in German by Jean Arp .