Representative work by Jean (Hans) Arp
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Jean (Hans) Arp

b. 1886, Strasbourg, France · Based in Meudon, France & Basel, Switzerland

  • Kunstschule, Weimar (1907)
  • Académie Julian, Paris (1908)
  • Dadaism
  • Biomorphic Sculpture
  • Collage
  • Bronze

Jean (Hans) Arp was a founding figure of Dada and pioneer of biomorphic abstraction whose organic plaster, marble, and bronze sculptures evoke natural growth, embryonic forms, and cosmic cycles. Rejecting geometric rigidity, his spontaneous forms celebrate nature's creative force.

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