A new exhibition at MoMA explores the boundless creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp,, 1916. Colored pencil, gouache, and pencil on paper. 9 7/16 x 7 3/4” . Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin.Like Albers and Krasner, Taeuber-Arp’s work was for many years overshadowed by that of her more famous husband, in this case the Franco-German sculptor, painter, and poet Jean Arp.
The couple, who married in 1922, were both mainstays of Zurich’s fledgling Dada movement; during which Taeuber-Arp performed abstract dances—as both an artist and a performer, she was fearlessly playful—and crafted expressive, absurdist art objects likeWith Taeuber-Arp’s sudden death in 1943 came the problem of preserving her life’s work: because so much of it had gone into people’s homes rather than to dedicated art collections, large swaths of her output were missing.
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