Sophie Taeuber-Arp
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| Born |
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber 19 January 1889 Davos Platz, Switzerland |
| Died | 13 January 1943 (aged 53) Zürich-Höngg, Switzerland |
| Resting place | Davos, Trogen, Munich, Hamburg, Zurich, Strasbourg, Paris, Grasse |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Education | Gewerbeschule in St. Gallen, Dschebitz-Schule in Munich, and Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg |
| Known for | Sculpture, painting, textile design, dancing |
| Movement | Concrete Art, Constructivism, Dada |
| Spouse(s) | Hans Arp |
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp (/ˈtɔɪbər ˈɑːrp/; 19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect and dancer.
She is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century.
Born in Davos, Switzerland, Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber was the fifth child of Prussian pharmacist Emil Taeuber and Swiss Sophie Taeuber-Krüsi, from Gais in Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Switzerland. Her parents operated a pharmacy in Davos until her father died of tuberculosis when she was two years old, after which the family moved to Trogen, where her mother opened a pension. She studied textile design at the trade school (Gewerbeschule, today School of Applied Arts) in St. Gallen (1906–1910). She then moved on to the workshop of Wilhelm von Debschitz at his school in Munich, where she studied in 1911 and again in 1913; in between, she studied for a year at the School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) in Hamburg. She joined the Schweizerischer Werkbund in 1915. In the same year, she attended the Laban School of Dance in Zurich, and in the summer she joined the artist colony of Monte Verita in Ascona; in 1917, she danced with Suzanne Perrottet, Mary Wigman and others at the Sun Festival organised by Laban in Ascona.
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