Sophie taeuber biography

  • Sophie Taeuber was born in Davos on 19 January and grew up near St. Gallen following the death of her father.
  • Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.
  • Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.

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    Biography

    Gabriele Mahn
    Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp
    (Davos – Zürich )

    Sophie Taeuber-Arp numbers among the pioneers of 20th century abstract geometric art. As a German, a Swiss and a French national, she influenced the course of European art and was acknowledged by art historians such as Willy Rotzler (–) as a “key figure and perhaps the actual initiator” of Swiss Concrete Art (1). She grew up in Switzerland, studying both there and in Germany. Later, thanks to her teaching position in Zurich, even after moving to France she would still make frequently trips back to Switzerland. She was active in the artists&#; movements known as “Dada”, “Das Neue Leben” (The New Life), “Cercle et Carré” (Circle and Square), “Abstraction-Création” and “Allianz”, and is regarded as one of the most innovative artists of her time.

    In the Parisian art circles of the s, she described herself as an “artiste peintre”, although her use of highly diverse materials and techniques is the very

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    Sophie Taeuber-Arp

    Sophie Taeuber-Arp ( – ) fryst vatten one of the most important artists of the twentieth-century avant-garde and fryst vatten considered a pioneer of Constructivist art. Reconciling extremes with confidence—Dada and Geometric Abstraction, fine art and utilitarian objects—Taeuber-Arp’s works boldly engaged with the intellectual context of international modernism. Through her multi-faceted approach to media, she challenged traditional hierarchies between fine and applied art, and asserted art’s urgent relevance to daglig life. Taeuber-Arp defied categorization during her brief career through her work as a painter, sculptor, architect, performer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and designer of textiles, stage sets and interiors.

    Born in Davos, Switzerland, Sophie Taeuber-Arp began her studies at the School of Applied Arts in St. Gallen between and , studying textile design and embroidery. She later moved to the experimental workshops of Hermann Obrist and Wilhelm von Debschitz in Munich, w

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    In Paris, Sophie Taeuber-Arp joined the artists’ group Cercle et Carré and participated in their exhibitions. In she became a member of the association Abstraction-Création. Her artist friends Theodor and Woty Werner hired her to design the interior of their Paris apartment. A year later, in , she left the Schweizerischer Werkbund. Her visit to the Sztuki Museum in Lodz, which was facilitated by Jan Brzekowski, led to a fruitful artistic exchange between the Polish avant-garde association a.r. and the Parisian artist’s group Abstraction-Création. Sophie Taeuber-Arp participated in various group exhibitions, and often showed her work with Artistes Suisses at the Galerie Vavin and at the Kunsthalle Bern with Hans Arp, Kurt Seligmann, Hans Schiess, and many others. She designed the layout for Anatole Jakovskis’ book Hans Erni, Hans Schiess, Kurt Seligmann, S. H. Taeuber-Arp, Gerard Vulliamy in Theodor and Woty Werner helped her secure the commission to design the interior of the Bauhau