Hans (Jean) Arp (September 16, 1886 РJune 7, 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-B̩del Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

Hans Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of an Alsatian mother and and a non-Alsatian German father, he was born during the brief period following the Franco-Prussian War when the area was known as Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen in German) after it had been returned to Germany by France. Following the return of Alsace to France at the end of World War I, French law determined that his name become Jean. City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... Capital Strasbourg Land area¹ 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Population  - Jan. ... The Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870 – May 10, 1871) was fought between France and Prussia (backed by the North German Confederation) allied with the south German states of Baden, Bavaria and Württemberg. ... Imperial Province of Elsass-Lothringen (497 Kb) Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was the territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but returned by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which... Combatants Entente Powers Central Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties > 5 million military deaths > 3 million military deaths World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict...

In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, Germany and in 1908 went back to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1915, he moved to Switzerland, to take advantage of Swiss neutrality. Arp later told the story of how, when he was notified to report to the German embassy, he avoided being drafted into the army: he took the paperwork he had been given and, in the first blank, wrote the date. He then wrote the date in every other space as well, then drew a line beneath them and carefully added them up. He then took off all his clothes and went to hand in his paperwork. He was told to go home. 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The École Nationale Supérieure dArts et Métiers (ENSAM) is a French technical college and grand établissement. ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the locality in Texas called Weimar see Weimar, Texas, there is also Weimar bei Kassel and Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf. ... The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Conscription is a general term for forced labor demanded by some established authority, e. ...

Arp was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst, and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, he set up the Cologne Dada group. However, in 1925 his work also appeared in the first exhibition of the surrealist group at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ... Location within Switzerland â–¶ (help· info) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Ernst in 1909. ... Johannes Theodor Baargeld, pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (9 October 1892 - 9 October 1927), was a German painter and poet who, together with Max Ernst, founded the Cologne Dada group. ... Cologne (German: â–¶ (help· info) [kÅ“ln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ...

In 1926, Arp moved to the Paris suburb of Meudon. In 1931, he broke with the Surrealism movement to found Abstraction-Création, working with the Paris-based group Abstraction-Création and the periodical, Transition. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Meudon is a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine département in northern France. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Abstraction-Création was a loose association of artists formed in Paris in 1931. ...

Throughout the 1930s and until the end of his life, he wrote and published essays and poetry. In 1942, he fled from his home in Meudon to escape German occupation and lived in Zürich until the war ended. Meudon is a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine département in northern France. ... Location within Switzerland â–¶ (help· info) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ...

Arp visited New York City in 1949 for a solo exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery. In 1950, he was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris. In 1954, Arp won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1945. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ...

In 1958, a retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, followed by an exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, in 1962. General Electric GE90-115B fanblade, on display at MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ... The Musée National dArt Moderne is an art museum in Paris, France, located within the Centre Georges Pompidou. ...

The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg houses many of his paintings and sculptures. The Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain of Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of modern and contemporary art) opened at the end of 1998. ...

Arp died in Basel, Switzerland. His first wife, the artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, died in Zürich in 1943, and he subsequently married the collector Marguerite Hagenbach. Location within Switzerland Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as of 2003). ... Sophie Taeuber-Arp (19 January 1889 - 13 January 1943) was an artist, painter, and sculptor. ... Location within Switzerland â–¶ (help· info) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...

External links

• Arp art at Olga's Gallery
• Arp at artchive.com
• Fondation Jean Arp
• Arp Museum Rolandseck, Germany