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Hans (Jean) Arp (September 16, 1886 – June
7, 1966) was a sculptor, painter, and poet.

Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of an
Alsace|Alsatian mother and a non-Alsatian
Germany|German father, he was born during the
brief period following the Franco-Prussian War
when the area was known as Alsace-Lorraine after
it had been returned to Germany by France.
Following the return of Alsace to France at the
end of World War I, French law determined that his
name become Jean.

In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et
MĂ©tiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he
published his poetry for the first time. From 1905
to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar,
Germany|Weimar, Germany and in 1908 went back to
Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In
1915, he moved to Switzerland, to take advantage
of Swiss neutrality. Arp later told the story of
how, when he was notified to report to the German
embassy, he avoided being military draft|drafted
into the army: he took the paperwork he had been
given and, in the first blank, wrote the date. He
then wrote the date in every other space as well,
then drew a line beneath them and carefully added
them up. He then took off all his clothes and went
to hand in his paperwork. He was told to go home.

Arp was a founding member of the Dada movement in
ZĂĽrich in 1916. In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with
Max Ernst, and the social activist Johannes
Theodor Baargeld|Alfred GrĂĽnwald, he set up the
Cologne Dada group. However, in 1925 his work also
appeared in the first exhibition of the surrealist
group at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.

In 1926, Arp moved to the Paris suburb of Meudon.
In 1931, he broke with the Surrealism movement to
found Abstraction-Création, working with the
Paris-based group Abstraction-Création and the
periodical, Transition.

Throughout the 1930s and until the end of his
life, he wrote and published essays and poetry. In
1942, he fled from his home in Meudon to escape
German occupation and lived in ZĂĽrich until the
war ended.

Arp visited New York City in 1949 for a solo
exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery. In 1950, he
was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard
University Graduate Center in Cambridge,
Massachusetts would also be commissioned to do a
mural at the UNESCO building in Paris. In 1954,
Arp won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the
Venice Biennale.

In 1958, a retrospective of his work was held at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,
followed by an exhibition at the Musée National
d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, in 1962.

The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of
Strasbourg, houses many of his paintings and
scultures.

Arp died in Basel, Switzerland.

== External links==
* http://www.abcgallery.com/A/arp/arp.html Arp art
at Olga's Gallery
* http://www.artchive.com/artchive/A/arp.html Arp
at artchive.com
* http://www.fondationarp.org/ Fondation Jean Arp