Who is Jean Arp
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.Early life
Arp was born in Straßburg (now Strasbourg), the son of a French mother and a German father, during the period following the Franco-Prussian War when the area was known as Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen in German) after France had ceded it to Germany in 1871. Following the return of Alsace to France at the end of World War I, French law determined that his name become "Jean". Arp would continue referring to himself as "Hans" when he spoke German.
Career
Dada
In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in St...
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Jean Arp Poems
- Sekundenzeiger
daß ich als ich
ein und zwei ist
daß ich als ich
drei und vier ist ... - The Plain
I was alone with a chair on a plain
Which lost itself in an empty horizon.
The plain was flawlessly paved. ... - The Domestic Stones (fragment)
(Translated from the French by David Gascoyne)
The feet of morning the feet of noon and the feet of evening
walk ceaselessly round pickled buttocks... - Die Schwalbenhode
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weh unser guter kaspar ist tot
wer trägt nun die brennende fahne im zopf wer dreht die... - Kaspar Is Dead
(Translated by G P Skratz)
o god our kaspar is dead
& now there's no-one to steal away with the burning flag &...
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Adreciclarte: by jean arp, 1955Bloomhunmai: nimrit deserves trophy art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. - jean arp..
Nas740: jean hans arp
Matrixsynth: new post: ambient improvisation using arp odyssey & blue marvin 2600 inspired by jean-michel jarre
Viciousidiot: luv jean arp
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