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Jean Arp
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
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culture · German-French sculptor and poet (1886–1966) · painter · sculptor · poet · writer · designer · photographer · jewelry designer · draftsperson · docent · illustrator · also Jean Arp, Hans Arp, Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Arp, Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, Khans Arp, Arp
Born 16 September 1886 · Died 7 June 1966 · Q153739
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1977· 1 entry
By the dealer Johannes Wasmuth in consultation with Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach and owns the largest collection of works by Arp and holds the copyright of all his works
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1972· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art showcased Jean Arp's work from the Lejwa's collection and a few works lent by Arp's widow, Marguerite Arp
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1966).
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Died 1966-06-07.
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Arp married the collector Marguerite Hagenbach (1902–1994), his long-time companion
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1958· 1 entry
A retrospective of Arp's work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, followed by an exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1962
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1950· 1 entry
Was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris
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1949· 1 entry
For a solo exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery, and this coincided with a general international recognition of his work
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1943· 1 entry
In Zürich, where they had moved to escape the German occupation of France, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning
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1942· 1 entry
Fled from his home in Meudon to escape German occupation and lived in Zürich until the war ended
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1931· 1 entry
Broke with the Surrealist movement to found Abstraction-Création, working with the Paris-based group Abstraction-Création and the periodical, Transition
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1926· 1 entry
Arp moved to the Paris suburb of Meudon
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1925· 1 entry
His work also appeared in the first exhibition of the Surrealist group at the Galérie Pierre in Paris
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1920· 1 entry
As Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, he set up the Cologne Dada group
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1916· 1 entry
Hugo Ball opened the Cabaret Voltaire, which was to become the centre of Dada activities in Zürich for a group that included Arp, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, and others
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1915· 1 entry
Moved to Switzerland to take advantage of Swiss neutrality
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1913· 1 entry
Was taken up by Herwarth Walden, the dealer and magazine editor who was at that time one of the most powerful figures in the European avant-garde
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1912· 1 entry
Went to Munich and called on Wassily Kandinsky, the influential Russian painter and art theorist
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1911· 1 entry
Participating in their exhibitions from 1911 to 1913
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1908· 1 entry
Returned to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian
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1904· 1 entry
After leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-09-16.
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