Dada Artist Jean Arp. He began training as an artist in Artist and bilingual writer associated with the dada movement in zurich, cologne, and paris.
Hans (jean) arp, tristan tzara, marcel janco and richard huelsenbeck were among the original contributors to the cabaret voltaire. Who is jean (hans) arp? Died 7 june 1966 in solduno, switzerland.
As the war raged on, their art and performances became increasingly experimental, dissident and anarchic.
Very interested in ancient mystic philosophy, he believed that nature expressed the dynamic force of life and wished to imitate this energy in his work: ’i tried to make forms grow’, he wrote, ’i put my trust in the example of seeds, stars, clouds, plants. Following the return of alsace to france at the end of world war i, french law determined that his name become jean. Born 16 september 1887 in strasbourg.