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Composition Verticale-Horizontale - 1916

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition, c. 1918, graphite and body colors on paper, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Donated by Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 1977.  © SIK-ISEA, Zürich (Jean-Pierre Kuhn). © 2023 Stiftun Arp e.V., Berlin / Rolandswerth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Composition à cercles, carrés et rectangles

1933

Gouache et papier sur toile

35.3 × 47 cm

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Second Composition, 1932, gouache on paper

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Swiss/French, 1899-1943)

Marionettes for a modern adaptation of the 18th-century commedia dell’arte play King Stag (1762), to be performed at the inaugural exhibition of the Swiss Werkbund in 1918. Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte is a tale of true love and animal metamorphosis. For this satirical update, Taeuber-Arp created figures composed of geometric shapes, turned on a lathe rather than carved, the metal joints left visible so as to draw attention to their construction. With their mechanics thus exposed and forms abstracted, the figures look more robotic than animal.

Military Guards

Clarissa

Angela

Freudanalytikus - the Magician

Sophie Taeuber-Arp c.1918-1920

“The desire to enrich and beautify things cannot be interpreted materialistically, that is, in the sense of increasing their value as possessions; rather, it stems from the instinct for perfection and the creative act.”

Over the course of her career, Sophie Taeuber-Arp demonstrated this desire to make beautiful things, with a level of precision that would become her hallmark, in a wide variety of artistic pursuits. She worked as a designer of textiles, beadwork, costumes, furniture, and interiors, as well as an applied arts teacher, puppet maker, architect, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and magazine editor. Through her artistic output and professional alliances, she consistently challenged the historical boundaries separating fine art from craft and design.

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1942 (vía Plate (folio 20) from 10 Origin - Sophie Taeuber-Arp — Google Arts & Culture)

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp - "Heute ist Morgen". (Today is Tomorrow.)

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp Cercles mouvementés, 1934 Gouache and pencil on paper Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno Photo: Roberto Pellegrini

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1933 (vía Schematic Composition - Sophie Taeuber-Arp — Google Arts & Culture)

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Military Guards (Die Wachen), 1918                                                           

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition, 1931, © Museum of Art in Lodz

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp and her sister Erika Taeuber, 1921–1922 & 1916, photograph by unknown artist @abwwia

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Composition à cercles multicolores

1938

Gouache et papier coloré

27.2 × 22.2 cm

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Formes coïncidentes, lignes et plans, 1942, crayon on paper