Studio of Jean Arp - Basel, Switzerland - Art Studios on Waymarking.com

The famous artist and co-founder of the Dada movement Jean (or Hans) Arp spent the last period of his life in Basel before he died in 1966. He had his studio in the top floor of the building at Fischmarkt 5 behind the large Art nouveau window.

The building is a men's fashion shop today and there is no sign or plaque or anything to commemorate this great artist.

Address: Fischmarkt 5 4051 Basel Artist info: Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst, and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, 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. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) Type of studio: Art studio Webpage that tells more about the artist: [Web Link]

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