Arp was one of the founders of the Zurich Dada movement, which occupied an intense and international group of young men and women in that neutral Swiss city as World War I raged around them.

In 1915 Hugo Ball and his companion Emmy Hennings set up the Cabaret Voltaire, and were joined by other artists like Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, both of Romanian origin, Richard Huelsenbeck and Jean ...

Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Friends, Lovers, Partners is on display at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts until January 19 2025, then at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter just outside of Oslo from ...

Arp, who lived from 1886 to 1966, helped found the Dada movement, initially working in paint and collage. But by the 1930s, embracing surrealism , he began to focus on sculpture.

Jean Arp’s abstract sculpture Ptolémée II, ... which began with co-founding the Dada movement in Zurich during the 1910s and later led to his recognition as a prominent Surrealist artist.

So Jean (Hans) Arp once outlined his credo. To save man from ... In fact, says Arp, Dada was dedicated art: “My gouaches, reliefs, ...

When Sophie Taeuber took to a Zurich stage in 1917 (long before marrying Jean Arp and, as per Swiss custom, tacking his name onto the end of hers), the Cabaret Voltaire and Dada founder Hugo Ball ...

Jean Arp News About Jean Arp At One Hundred, Surrealism Is Alive and Well in Austin and Beyond After André Breton published his famous manifesto, the movement caught on like wildfire. By ...

The wife of famed abstract artist, Jean Arp, Sophie was a stalwart in the canon of Constructivism, Dada and Modernism. But unlike her husband, she was a truly multi-disciplinary artist who ...

Sophie Taeuber-Arp poses behind her “Dada Head” (1919), a rounded spheroid of painted wood with a protruding nose. ... Hugo Ball, and her future husband, the artist and poet Jean (Hans) Arp.