Jean (Hans) Arp-Constellation - Collage - 1922
‘(Hans) Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet.
Hans Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of an Alsatian mother and a non-Alsatian German father, he was born during the brief period following the Franco-Prussian War when the area was known […]
Max Ernst-Spanish Physician
‘Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Brühl, Germany. In 1910, he enrolled in the University of Bonn to study philosophy, literature, art history, psychology and psychiatry. He completed his studies in 1914 just as WWI broke out.
In 1918 he married the art historian Luise Straus — a stormy relationship that […]
Sigmar Polke-ohne Titel (Untitled) from Saltoarte
‘Polke’s family escaped from the Communist regime in East Germany in 1953. Upon his arrival in West Germany, in Wittich, Polke began to spend time in galleries and museums and worked as an apprentice in a stained glass factory called Dusseldorf Kaiserwerth, before entering the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Art School) at […]