Jean Arp

Jean Arp was born in 1886 in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (now France). With artists Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsbeck and Tristan Tzara, he founded the Dada movement in Zurich. He married Sophie Taeuber in 1922. He exhibited his works in the first surrealist exhibition at the Pierre Gallery in Paris, with surrealists such as Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. In 1929, he moves to Paris, where he becomes a member of the Cercle et Carré and Abstraction Création . He flees from the German occupation in 1940 to the south of France. He would then flee to Zurich in 1942 with Sophie Taeuber-Arp, where she would die in 1943. In 1958, he had his first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Arp died in 1966 in Basel at the age of 79.