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
Helm, Brigitte b. March 17, 1908 d. June 11, 1996 Actress. Most famous for her first film role as 'Maria' and her robot doppleganger in Fritz Lang's 1927 classic film "Metropolis" (she was only 19 at the time). She starred in more than thirty films throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, such as "Desire", "The Mistress of Atlantis" and "Am rand der Welt" (At the Edge of the World). Working with a perfectionist Lang on "Metropolis" was so physically tasking that she refused to make another film with him. She was Josef Von Sternberg's first...[Read More] Ascona Cemetery, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
b. September 16, 1887 d. June 7, 1966