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Hans Arp

Also Known As Jean Arp Used Hans when speaking German and Jean in French contexts; French law required a French first name after Alsace reverted to France following the First World War.
Sculptors

Hans Arp co-founded Dada in Zurich in 1916 together with Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara, contributing collages, reliefs and poetry built on chance procedures he saw as a way to access what he called the basic ordering processes of the natural world, beyond conscious rational control. His torn-paper and wood-relief compositions, arranged according to the laws of chance, embodied Dada's rejection of deliberate, rational artistic composition. After Dada, Arp moved into Surrealism and Constructivism before turning primarily to freestanding sculpture from around 1930 onward, developing his organic Human Concretion forms.

Facts
Birth Year
1886 1
Death Year
1966 1
Nationality
French-German 1
Born to a French mother and German father in the contested Alsace region.
Birth Date
1886-09-16 1
Death Date
1966-06-07 1
Birthplace
Strasbourg (then part of the German Empire) 1
Death Place
Basel, Switzerland 1
Active From Year
1904 1
Active To Year
1966 1
Training
Attended art schools in Strasbourg and Weimar and the Academie Julian in Paris, 1901-1908; in 1910 co-founded the Swiss artists' association Der Moderne Bund in Lucerne with Walter Helbig and Oscar Luthy. 1
Classification
Gender
Male 1
Connections

In Movement

Dada, Movements

Co-founder of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916.

Source Wikipedia

Practices

Collage, Art Forms
Source Encyclopaedia BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica editors
Sculpture, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia

Works Created

Untitled (Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance), Works
Source Tate
Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Jean Arp article (Hans Arp), lead section
    Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet.
  • Gender reference
    Hans Arp co-founded Dada in Zurich in 1916 together with Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara, contributing collages, reliefs and poetry built on chance procedures he saw as a way to access what he called the basic ordering processes of the natural world, beyond conscious rational control.
  • In Category: Artists
  • Practices: Sculpture
  • In Movement: Dada
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Wikidata: Hans Arp
Wikidata Q153739, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
Tate
Tate, United KingdomWorks Created: Untitled (Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance)View the Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Practices: Collage, Collage, britannica.com/art/collageView the Source
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