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Jean Arp
"Art is the consequence, the sum of all tensions of our time."
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A presque quatre-vingt ans, Jean Arp est mort le 7 juin 1966 à Bâle (Suisse) où il vécut les dernières années de sa vie. Il repose dans un îlot fourni de végétation colorée au cimetière de Locarno (Suisse). Sa tombe porte une sculpture de l’artiste. Nous y déposons, en hommage à sa mémoire, une orchidée blanche.
"Nous cherchions un art élémentaire qui, du moins nous le pensions, devait sauver les hommes de la folie furieuse de l’époque." - Jean Hans Arp
"Nous ne voulons pas copier la nature. Nous ne voulons pas reproduire, nous voulons produire, comme une plante qui produit un fruit, directement et non par truchement. Comme il n’y a pas la moindre trace d’abstraction dans cet art, nous le nommons : art concret." - Jean Hans Arp
"L’art concret veut transformer le monde, rendre l’existence plus supportable. Il veut sauver l’homme de la folie la plus dangereuse, la vanité. L’art concret est un art élémentaire, naturel, sain, qui fait grandir dans l’esprit et dans le coeur les étoiles de la paix, de l’amour et de la poésie." - Jean Hans Arp
"Il fut un ami merveilleux. Bien qu'admiré et célèbre, il resta longtemps ignoré des professionnels du marché de l'art. L'homme Jean Arp fut fort et fragile, spirituel, net et lisse comme un marbre de Arp. Regardez bien son oeuvre, vous saurez l'homme qu'il fut." - Denise René (Célèbre galeriste)
"ARP is ART, ART is ARP." - Marcel Duchamp
"Enfin je puis quitter ce pays plein de bruit / … / Je cours. Enfin je pénètre dans le loin, dans l'insonore bleu des nostalgies." - Jean Hans Arp
Notes of biography
Hans Arp, Jean, was born in Strasbourg in 1887. He studied first to the Art Academy of Weimar (1904-1906), then to the Julian Academy in Paris (1908). He was a founder member of the group “Der Moderne Bund” in 1911. In 1912 he contributed to the Blaue Reiter Almanac and exhibited with this group. Jean Arp, then, created abstract collages.
In 1914, he took refuge in France, in Switzerland the following year, managing to be made exempted of his service in the German army. He met Sophie Taeuber in 1915 and married the painter in 1922. They created together abstract “duet-collages” with papers cut out with the trimmer. The following year, he was co-founder of the Dada group of Zurich ; later he took part in the Dada movement of Berlin and Cologne.
In 1916, he worked with the fate into his collages by retaining the position taken by papers he let fall on a sheet. At that time, Arp created reliefs with assemblies of lively-colors-plates of wood (1916-1917). In 1920, he created an alphabet for his reliefs where the signs evoke real forms. He invented and painted decorations of ballets.
Arp settled down in Paris in 1925 and joined the surrealist movement. He made his first sculptures. He took French nationality in 1926 and organised his first personal exhibition the year after. In 1928, Arp practised the automatic writing of the surrealists and their game: the exquisite corpse. Arp took part in "Circle and Square" (1929), in Abstraction-Creation (1932), in Allianz (1937). About 1930, he added a variant to his collages with "torn papers".
With the declaration of war, Arp gallicised his first name in Jean. From 1942 to 1945, Arp took refuge in Switzerland where his wife, Sophie Tauber Arp, died tragically. Throughout his life, Arp was devoted to poetry at the same time to his plastic work. Arp also carried out a monumental work. Jean Arp died in Bâle, Switzerland, in 1966.
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The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Sculptures de 1957 à 1966 », F. Arp, Arthur Niggli, Teufen, 1968
*« Das Graphische Werk 1912-1966 », W. F. Arntz, Ed. Gertrud Arntz-Winter, Stuttgart, 1980
*« Arp, die reliefs », B. Rau & M. Seuphor, Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1981
*« C. R. » en préparation par la fondation Arp
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- «Jean Arp», I. Jianou, Arted, Paris, 1973
- «Arp, bibliographie», A. Bleikasten, 2 Vol., Grant & Cutter, Londres, 1981/83
- «Jean Arp, rétrospective», MAM de la ville de Paris, 1986
- «Hans Arp», S. Fauchereau, Albin Michel, 1988
- «Jean Arp : L'invention de la forme», Collectif, Ed. 5 continets, 2004
- «Dada», Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005
- «Art is Arp, Les ateliers de Hans-Jean Arp», I. Ewig, Ed. Musees De Strasbourg, 2009
- «Hans Arp, La nature des choses», collectif, Ed. Feymedia, 2012
- «Atelier Jean Arp et Sophie Taeuber», Renaud Ego, Fondation Arp, Éd. des Cendre, 2012
- «Jean Arp sculptures», Ari Hartig, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2012
To read from the artist :
- «Jours effeuillés», Gallimard, Paris, 1966
- «Sable de lune: poèmes choisis», Jean Arp, Ed. Arfuyen, 2005
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
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Document in reproduction / This document is not for sale
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Jean Arp
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
A presque quatre-vingt ans, Jean Arp est mort le 7 juin 1966 à Bâle (Suisse) où il vécut les dernières années de sa vie. Il repose dans un îlot fourni de végétation colorée au cimetière de Locarno (Suisse). Sa tombe porte une sculpture de l’artiste. Nous y déposons, en hommage à sa mémoire, une orchidée blanche.
"Nous cherchions un art élémentaire qui, du moins nous le pensions, devait sauver les hommes de la folie furieuse de l’époque." - Jean Hans Arp
"Nous ne voulons pas copier la nature. Nous ne voulons pas reproduire, nous voulons produire, comme une plante qui produit un fruit, directement et non par truchement. Comme il n’y a pas la moindre trace d’abstraction dans cet art, nous le nommons : art concret." - Jean Hans Arp
"L’art concret veut transformer le monde, rendre l’existence plus supportable. Il veut sauver l’homme de la folie la plus dangereuse, la vanité. L’art concret est un art élémentaire, naturel, sain, qui fait grandir dans l’esprit et dans le coeur les étoiles de la paix, de l’amour et de la poésie." - Jean Hans Arp
"Il fut un ami merveilleux. Bien qu'admiré et célèbre, il resta longtemps ignoré des professionnels du marché de l'art. L'homme Jean Arp fut fort et fragile, spirituel, net et lisse comme un marbre de Arp. Regardez bien son oeuvre, vous saurez l'homme qu'il fut." - Denise René (Célèbre galeriste)
"ARP is ART, ART is ARP." - Marcel Duchamp
"Enfin je puis quitter ce pays plein de bruit / … / Je cours. Enfin je pénètre dans le loin, dans l'insonore bleu des nostalgies." - Jean Hans Arp
Art movements
+ DADAISM / 1916-1924 / Erwin Blumenfeld, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Janco, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taueber-Arp, etc.
+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
+ ABSTRACTION-CREATION / 1931-1938 / Etienne Béothy, Frantisek Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, etc.
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