So who was Sophie Taeuber-Arp?
Born in Davos, Switzerland in 1889 as Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber, Taeuber-Arp is now recognised as one of the key figures in the Dada artistic movement, though in her lifetime she fought for her less figurative style of art to be recognised as fine art.
Taeuber-Arp studied drawing and attended the School for Applied and Free Art in Munich before leaving for Zurich in 1915, where she met and later married French sculptor, painter and collagist Hans Arp in 1922.
The pair famously created vast, abstract multimedia works under the umbrella Duo Collages.
As well as a skilled artist, Taeuber-Arp was also a lauded dancer, and performed at the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub which was a firm favourite with the Dada crowd.
She died in Zurich in 1943 of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning (a faulty stove), and remains the only woman to date to feature on Swiss banknotes.
The Dadaist movement was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century
- Fondazione Marguerite Arp / Marguerite Arp
Дадаи́зм, или дада — авангардистское течение в литературе, изобразительном искусстве, театре и кино.
Зародилось во время Первой мировой войны в нейтральной Швейцарии, в Цюрихе (Кабаре Вольтер).
Существовало с 1916 по 1922 годы.
Дадаизм — Lurkmore
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