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Sophie Taeuber Arp - Today is Tomorrow Author: Aargauer Kunsthaus

ISBN: 9783858817570 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 30 September 2014 Country of Publication: CH Dimensions (cm): 31.0 x 24.0 x 3.1 Description:

Sophie Taeuber ranks among the pioneers of classical avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Davos, Switzerland, in 1889, she was educated as an artist at the School of Applied Arts in St. Gallen, Switzerland, at Wilhelm von Debschitz's teaching and experimental workshop in Munich and the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg. Taeuber returned to Switzerland in 1915 to study at Rudolf von Laban's dance school in Zurich, where she became involved also in the Dada-movement between 1916 and 1920. Among the Dadaists she met the French artist and writer Jean Arp, who became her husband in 1922. She was a member of the SwissWerkbund, an important association of artists, architects and designers 1915-32 and taught textile design at the Zurich School of Applied Arts in 1916-29. Sophie Taeuber moved to Meudon near Paris in 1928 to live and work in her self-designed studio home until she had to flee from the German occupation to Grasse in the south of France in 1940, and again in 1942 to Zurich, where she died in January 1943.

Sophie Taeuber's work shows remarkably versatile and immensely gifted ar...

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