Sophie Taeuber Arp
Sophie Taeuber, born 19 January 1889 in Davos , Switzerland and died on 13 January 1943 in Zurich , is an artist , painter and sculptor Swiss movements that participated in Dada and Surrealist with her husband Jean Arp.
Biography
Sophie Taeuber studied Applied Arts in Munich and Hamburg and thanks to her friend Mary Wigman , she discovered dance expression. She took lessons under the direction of choreographer Rudolf van Laban.
She settled by force of circumstances to Zurich in 1915 and his talent as a dancer is going to open the doors of Cabaret Voltaire. However it must use a pseudonym and masked dancing, because dance full of inventions, whims and eccentricities it provides a spectacle, are not in agreement with the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, where she teaches ( between 1916 and 1929 ).
The year he arrived in Zurich in 1915 , she met Jean Arp Tanner to gallery and married him on October 20 1922. Both are involved in the movement Dada.
By the late 1920's , she lives in Paris. She continues to experiment with the design but not dance in public (dada adventure ending in Zurich). His painting , directly inspired by his training in art deco form the premise of geometric abstract art (also known as concrete art ). His art is the search of the essential character of the flowers, trees, animals and rocks, a manner she can enrich our knowledge of nature.
Between 1926 and 1928 , Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp and Theo van Doesburg , will be called to transform part of the Aubette de Strasbourg in a sort of entertainment complex and restaurant. The construction and decoration of this brewery-dancing is a project they bring with them. Indeed, the alliance between art and everyday life are references to the principles of the Werkbund that Sophie had enthusiastically embraced during his formative years.
In 1930 , she sympathizes with the movement constructivist. It also publishes its own newspaper called constructivist Plastic.
In 1940 , she and her husband fled to Dordogne and the Cote d'Azur. And in 1941 she created with Sonia Delaunay and others an art colony in Grasse in southern France which will be active until 1943.
She died in Zurich poisoned by carbon monoxide emitted by a faulty gas heater on 13 January 1943.
The banknote of 50 Swiss francs in circulation since 1995 , represents the artist.
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