ARP, HANS (AUCH JEAN) "Rock brain/Cerveau de rocher". Bronze, polished, sig. on overleaf. "Arp" u. num. 3/25, H: 8 cm, W: 12,5 cm, D: 9 cm Few spots with small dark dots. Literature: Eduard Trier, Hans Arp. Skulpturen 1957-1966, Stuttgart 1968, p. 117, no. 244. The work was created in 1961. Hans Arp studied at the Weimar School of Art and at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1904-1908. In 1909 he moved to Switzerland and became a co-founder of the artists' association "Moderner Bund." After a first exhibition in Zurich in 1915, Arp met Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck through Tristan Tzara, whose poems he illustrated. Together they founded Dadaism in Switzerland. Arp's work gained new inspiration through his marriage to the artist Sophie Taeuber. In 1923 he collaborated with Kurt Schwitters, exhibited with the Surrealists in Paris, and became a member of the artist movement Abstraction-Création. During the Third Reich, his works were defamed as degenerate art, resulting in a prolonged period of financial difficulties. During this time, Arp had to limit himself to the use of cheap materials. This is how the "Dessins aux doigts" and the "Papiers froissés" came into being. After the death of his wife, Arp traveled to the United States, Italy and Greece, where he received inspiration for his sculptural work. "Although Arp's sculptures have such a diverse associability, this richness of meaning was achieved with only a few formal means that have remained constant since 1930. The lively plump curves, the soft transitions, the melodiousness of the gliding contours, the undulating, but also the abrupt interruption of the pleasurable flowing into one another by hard cuts and sharp ridges belong to a sculptural repertoire that has imprinted itself on our consciousness through consistency and varying repetition as the unmistakable syntax of Hans Arp." (Eduard Trier, Hans Arp Skulpturen 1957-1966, Stuttgart 1968, p. XV) http://www.dobiaschofsky.com/d106--10469.html