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Swiss artist (1889–1943)

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (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. Sophie Taeuber-Arp did not sign or date her work until the last two years of her life, and she has left very few writings.

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Alternative Names: née Taeuber Taeuber -Arp • Sophie Tauber-Arp • née Taeuber Täuber • Sophie Taeuber -Arp • Sophie Taeuber- Arp • Sophie Täuber • Sophie Taeuber • Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp • Sophie Henriette Taeuber Arp • Sophie Henriette Arp-Taeuber • Sophie Henriette Taeuber • Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp • Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp • Sophie Henriette Gertrud Arp • Sophie Täuber-Arp • nee Taeuber Taeuber -Arp • Taeuber-Arp • Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp

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The intrinsic decorative urge should not be eradicated. It is one of humankind's deep-rooted, primordial urges. Primitive people decorated their implements and cult objects with a desire to beautify and enhance.. ..it is a sense emanating from the urge for perfection and creative accomplishment.

I very much enjoyed working on the drawing, so much so that I made a whole series of small watercolors that I can use at any time for application on embroidered purses, pillows, rugs and wall hangings.

..the wish to produce beautiful things — when that wish is true and profound — falls together with [man's] striving for perfection.

I think I have spoken enough to you about serious things; which is why I speak [now] of something to which I attribute great value, still too little appreciated — gaiety. It is gaiety, basically, that allows us to have no fear before the problems of life and to find a natural solution to them.

Composition in Dense, Polychrome, Quadrangular Spots / Composition en taches quadrangulaires, polychromes, denses

Elementary Forms in a Vertical-Horizontal Composition / Formes élémentaires en composition verticale-horizontale

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