Arp, Jean b. September 16, 1887 d. June 7, 1966 Artist, Poet. Born in Strasbourg, France, he began his career as a poet, before he developed a succesful work on sculpture and painting (but never abandoing writing poetry). He was a founding member of the Dada movement, becoming one of the most respected abstract artists of his time. In 1950, he executed a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris. In 1954, Arp won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Cimitero di Locarno, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
b. September 16, 1887 d. June 7, 1966