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The Museum of Avant-garde

Jean Arp

Germany (1886—1966)
French-German born Jean (or Hans) Arp spent his first years in Strasbourg, Paris and Weimar. In 1912 Kandinsky invited him to join him in Munich and join the Der Blaue Reiter group. He visited and exhibited in Zurich and in Berlin. In 1915 he moved back to Zurich to benefit from the Swiss neutrality. He became part of the Dadaist group and artists around the Cabaret Voltaire, and he later set up the Cologne Dada group with Max Ernst and Alfred Grunwald. Between 1925 and 1926 his artistic approach become closer to Surrealism until 1931 when the group started to dissolve. He found a new direction and founded the new movement Abstraction-Création and the periodical Transition. He continued to experiment using different materials and mediums to rearrange new configurations. In 1942 he escaped the German occupation and moved back to Zurich until his death, in 1966.
Max Ernst / Wassily Kandinsky
Richard Hülsenbeck / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Calendrier 20

Magazine / 22.9 x 19.5 cm / Paris, 1919

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Ljubomir Micić / Jozef Peeters / Michel Seuphor / Philippe Soupault / Émile Malespine / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Lajos Kassák / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Piet Mondriaan

Manomètre

Mélange des langues, enregistre les idées, indique la pression sur tous les méridiens, est polyglotte et supranational / Magazine / 17.5 x 22.5 cm / Lyon, 1922-1928

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Paul Joostens / Jean Arp / Max Ernst / René Magritte / Francis Picabia / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara

Œsophage

Magazine / Letterpress / 22.4 x 28.4 cm / Bruxelles, 1925

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Wyndham Lewis / Umberto Boccioni / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Crotti / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Raoul Hausmann / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Mécano

Magazine / Letterpress / Various sizes / Leiden, 1922-1924

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Jean Arp / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg

Merz 2

Nummer i / Magazine / Letterpress / 14.4 x 22.2 cm / Hannover, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Paul Nougé / Jean Arp / René Magritte / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara

Marie

Journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse / Bi-monthly journal / 24.2 x 32.3 cm / Bruxelles, 1926-1927

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Jean Cocteau / Jean Crotti / Walter Serner / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara

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Dieu nous aide et fait pousser le caca / Magazine / Letterpress / 32.6 x 49.2 cm / Paris, 1924 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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Jean Cocteau / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada Phone 7

Journal / Letterpress / 18.8 x 28.1 cm / Paris, 1920 / © 2020 Christophe Tzara

Hannah Höch / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Merz 6

Imitatoren watch step! / Magazine / Letterpress / 14.3 x 22.3 cm / Hannover, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Tristan Tzara

Dada 2

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 22.9 cm / Zürich, 1917

Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Hans Richter / Philippe Soupault / Pierre Albert-Birot / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada 3

Magazine / Letterpress / 23.8 x 31.4 cm / Zürich, 1918

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Jean Arp / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky)

Kunstismus, 1914-1924

Illustrated book / Letterpress / 20.3 x 26.5 cm / Zürich / Munich / Leipzig, 1925 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Lucia Moholy / Gerrit Rietveld / Paul Schuitema / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Martin Munkácsi / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan

i10

Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929

Guillaume Apollinaire / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

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La bicyclette archevêque / Magazine / Letterpress / 38 x 55.8 cm / Paris, 1919 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

Jean Cocteau / Richard Hülsenbeck / Hans Richter / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Raoul Hausmann / Wassily Kandinsky / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara / Paul Klee

Anthologie Dada

Dada 4-5 / Journal / Letterpress with original woodcuts and lithographs / 19 x 28.2 cm / Zürich, 1919

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Jean Arp / Max Ernst / Tristan Tzara

Der Sängerkrieg

Magazine / Letterpress and woodcuts / 21 x 31.4 cm / Paris, 1921

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Jean Arp / Fernand Léger / Paul Klee

Die Bücherkiste

Monatsschrift für Literatur, Graphik und Buchbesprechung / Journal / Letterpress with original woodcuts / 15.4 x 23 cm / Munich, 1919-1921

Jean Arp / Tristan Tzara

Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait / Maisons

Illustrated book / Letterpress with woodcuts / 20.6 x 25.2 cm / Paris, 1920 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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Anton Giulio Bragaglia / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Gino Severini / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Giorgio de Chirico / Paolo Buzzi / Juan Gris / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / Fortunato Depero / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Varvara Stepanova / Vladimir Tatlin / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg

Noi

Rivista d’arte futurista / Magazine / Letterpress / 24 x 33.8 cm / Rome, 1917-1925

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Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Hans Richter / Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Christian Schad / Jean Arp / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara

Der Zeltweg

Magazine / Letterpress / 31 x 21 cm / Paris, 1919

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Jean Arp / Max Ernst

Bulletin D

Booklet / Letterpress and line block / 17.5 x 23 cm / Köln, 1919 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Guillaume Apollinaire / Hugo Ball / Francesco Cangiullo / Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Amedeo Modigliani / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Pablo Picasso / Tristan Tzara

Cabaret Voltaire

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 20.9 x 29.6 cm / Zürich, 1916

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Jean Arp

Die Wolkenpumpe

Brochure / Letterpress with original woodcut / 14.8 x 21 cm / Hannover, 1920

Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

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Construction moléculaire / Magazine / Letterpress / 27.4 x 44.1 cm / Zürich, 1919 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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Richard Hülsenbeck / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dadameter

Die Schammade / Magazine / Letterpress with woodcuts / 22.9 x 29.4 cm / Berlin, 1920 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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Georges Hugnet / André Masson / Raoul Ubac / Jean Arp / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / René Magritte / Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara / Marc Chagall / Henri Matisse

Minotaure

Revue artistique et littéraire / Magazine / 23.6 x 31.5 cm / Paris, 1933-1939

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Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Tristan Tzara

Dada 1

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / Zürich, 1917

André Masson / Vitezslav Nezval / Jean Arp / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Le grand jeu

Magazine / 18 x 24.8 cm / Paris, 1928-1930

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Jean Arp / Tristan Tzara

De nos oiseaux

Illustrated book / Letterpress with original woodcuts / 13.1 x 18.5 cm / Paris, 1929

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Jean Arp / Tristan Tzara

Vingt-cinq poèmes

Illustrated book / Letterpress with woodcuts / 14.7 x 20.4 cm / Zürich, 1918

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Gerrit Rietveld / Gino Severini / Bart van der Leck / César Domela / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

De Stijl

Magazine / Letterpress / 20.7 x 28.6 cm / Delft / Leiden / Meudon, 1921-1932

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Willi Baumeister / Enrico Prampolini / Michel Seuphor / Gino Severini / Joaquín Torres García / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman / César Domela / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Henryk Stażewski / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan

Cercle et carré

Magazine / Offset / 23.8 x 32.2 cm / Paris, 1930

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Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Proverbe

Feuille mensuelle pour la justification des mots / Journal / Letterpress / 13.9 x 21.4 cm / Paris, 1920-1921

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Jean Arp

Kleine Menagerie

Illustrated book / Original woodcuts / 13.5 x 20.4 cm / Wiesbaden, 1955

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Guillaume Apollinaire / Sándor Bortnyik / Jean Cocteau / Philippe Soupault / Béla Uitz / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Kurt Schwitters

MA 2

Magazine / Silkscreen print / 29.9 x 30.7 cm / Budapest / Vienne, 1916-1925

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Hannah Höch / Edmund Collein / Walter Dexel / Jean Arp / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara

Merz 7

Tapsheft / Magazine / Letterpress / 23.6 x 31.3 cm / Hannover, 1924 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Max Bill / Naum Gabo / Jean Gorin / Bart van der Leck / István Beöthy (Etienne) / Luigi Veronesi / Jean Hélion / Auguste Herbin / František Kupka / Georges Vantongerloo / Katarzyna Kobro / Josef Albers / Jean Arp / Sonia Delaunay / Wassily Kandinsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Abstraction création art non figuratif

Magazine / Letterpress / 21.2 x 27.8 cm / Paris, 1932-1936

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Richard Hülsenbeck / Philippe Soupault / Paul Citroen / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Raoul Hausmann / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada Almanach

Illustrated book / Letterpress / 13.5 x 20 cm / Berlin, 1920

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Gerrit Rietveld / Émile Malespine / Otto Nebel / Jean Arp / Raoul Hausmann / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg

Merz 4

Banalitäten / Magazine / Letterpress / 14.4 x 22.9 cm / Hannover, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn