short biography

Hans Arp (Jean Arp, born 1886 in Straßburg/Germany (today France), died 1966 in Basel/Switzerland) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth-century avant garde, especially of Dadaism and Surrealism and a pioneer of abstract art. He was a member of the group "Abstraction-Création". Some of his works he created together with his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Dadaism; Surrealism; Constructivism; Group "Abstraction-Création", Sculpture, objects, assemblages, paintings, collages, embroidery, graphics, poetry, lyrics, poems automatic

http://arpmuseum.org/museum/unser-haus/kuenstlerpaar-arp.html

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collection/s

ACE GALLERY Los Angeles ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj Abbot Hall Art Gallery Arp Museum - Bahnhof Rolandseck Artfonds 21, Frankfurt Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont Block Museum of Art, Evanston Centre Pompidou Paris Chelsea Art Museum, New York Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Espace de l´Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny Forum Limbach Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin ° Haifa Museum of Art Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge / UK ° Kreeger Museum, Washington Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunsthalle zu Kiel Kunstmuseen Krefeld Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz ° Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art La Boverie, Liège Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo . MACBA Barcelona ' MACCSI - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sofía Imber, Caracas MAM Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro ° MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota MAMCS - Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg ° MAMbo Bologna MASI LAC & PALAZZO REALI Lugano MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUMOK Wien MUSMA Matera Mart Rovereto & Galleria Civica Trento Menil Collection, Houston Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich Museum Insel Hombroich + Siza Pavillon, Neuss Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U ° Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern Museum Würth, Künzelsau Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf ° Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb ' Museums Vledder Musée Cantini, Marseille Musée Tavet Delacour, Pontoise Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Palm Springs Art Museum Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Philadelphia Museum of Art Phoenix Art Museum Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Zürich Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt San Diego Museum of Art Schaulager, Münchenstein Skissernas Museum, Lund Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl ° Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame Sprengel Museum, Hannover Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) Vancouver Art Gallery Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm
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