Biography

Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, also Jean Arp was a German-French painter, graphic artist, sculptor and poet.

He moved in the artistic circles of the Constructivists and the Paris Surrealists, co-founding Dadaism in 1916 as a literary and artistic movement in response to the First World War and against its social conventions in Zurich. Arp worked particularly closely with his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp and at times with other artists such as the Constructivist El Lissitzky, Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters. In 1930 he became a member of the group Cercle et Carré and for one year co-founded the new abstract Parisian artists’ group Abstraction-Création.

Arp’s work is characterized by the Dadaist principle of chance and, from the 1920s on, by an “object language” of the everyday. Particularly characteristic is his preoccupation with “biomorphic”, rounded forms close to nature, which make his work unmistakable to this day.

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ARTWORKS Hans Arp

Jean Arp
Poupée, 1962
pencil on paper
42 x 17 cm (artist's mount)
Hans Arp
Poupée

1962

pencil on paper

42 x 17 cm (artist's mount)

signiert unten

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Provenance

  • Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired directly from the artist)
  • Patrick Cramer, Geneva
  • Private collection, Switzerland

Confirmation of authenticity by Patrick Cramer, May 9th, 2018

 

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Jean Arp
Stella, 1962
cast glass
19 x 16 cm
Hans Arp
Stella

1962

cast glass

19 x 16 cm

signed lower right

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Stella, 1962 emblem of the Fucina degli Angeli – design byJean Arp

verso inscribed: E. Constantini 1962 p. a. © Fucina degli Angeli Venezia

Provenance

Egidio Costantini, Venice Napé di Filippo Gambardella, Venice Private collection, Switzerland

Comparative literature

Coralie de Wasseigea a.o., Egidio Costantini „Il Maestro dei Maestri“ Ed. Espace Medicis / Espace Kiron, Bruxelles, pages 65 – 77

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Jean Arp
Signes, 1950
wood-cut on paper with it's original wood-block
12 x 18.5 cm
Hans Arp
Signes

1950

wood-cut on paper with it's original wood-block

12 x 18.5 cm

signed lower right

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Provenance

Atelierof the artist George Wittenborn, New York, gift by the artist to the editor George Wittenborn Gabriel Austin, New York Daniel Barr, New York Private collection, Switzerland

The sheet was the 1950 New Year’s card from Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc. Books and Fine Arts, 1018 Madison Avenue, NY.

Literature

Wilhelm F. Arntz, Hans (Jean) Arp, das graphische Werk 1912 – 1966, Verlag Gertrud Arntz-Winter, 1980, page 239, number 282

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