Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (1889 –1943) was a true Renaissance artist. She was a Swiss painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer. She was married to German-French artist Hans/Jean Arp, and they were associated with the Dada movement.
As Wassily Kandinsky said: “Sophie Taeuber-Arp expressed herself by means of the ‘colored relief,’ especially in the last years of her life, using almost exclusively the simplest forms, geometric forms. The forms, by their sobriety, their silence, their way of being sufficient unto themselves, invite the hand, if it is skillful, to use the language that is suitable to it and which is often only a whisper; but often too the whisper is more expressive, more convincing, more persuasive, than the 'loud voice’ that here and there lets itself burst out.” (from Wiki)
In honor of World Watercolor Month, we are posting works of art created in watercolor.
Quadrangular spots Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943, Swiss [artist] Watercolor Gouache 38.5 x 29 cm. Swiss 1920 Repository: Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland HOLLIS number: olvwork391021
