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Unica Zurn

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Unica Zürn is born in Berlin-Grunewald in 1916. Obliged to stop prematurely her studies, she becomes archivist, then film editor and art advisor, before to become a journalist (in 1950) for several newspapers in Germany and Switzerland. Then she leads a life of bohemian in artistic circles in Berlin. In 1953, Unica Zürn meets Hans Bellmer with whom she discovers the automatic drawing; in...

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Original signed etchings de  : Oracles et spectacles
Oracles et...
1967 Book in sheets, in-4, printed and folded cover, original editor box. Fourteen poem-anagrams and 8 original etchings signed in pencil by Unica Zurn.... Monod II, n°11612

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Œuvres complètes d’Unica Zürn", Ed. Erich Brinkmann, Brinkman et Bose, Berlin, 1989-1999 All the "catalogues raisonnés"

Bibliographic track & more

To read from or about the artist :
* « Sombre printemps », Unica Zürn, 1967, Ed. Belfond, Réed. 1985
* « L'Homme-Jasmin : impression d'une malade mentale », 1971, traduction Ruth Henry et Robert Valençay, préface d'André Pieyre de Mandiargues, coll. L'Imaginaire, Gallimard, Réed. 1999
* « Unica Zürn, 25 septembre 2006-4 mars 2007 », La Halle Saint-Pierre, Ed. du Panama, 2006
* « Unica Zürn, l'écriture du vertige », Anouchka d' Anna, Ed. Cartouche, 2010



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Art movements

  • + SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
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