1883) Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Artist , France: A postage stamp of 2.56 Euro, brought out by La Poste France (French Post) celebrating her work "Le Bateau": Date of Stamp issue: 31.05.2021:
About Sophie Taeuber-Arp:
Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (19.01.1889 – 13.01.1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.
Born in 1889, in Switzerland, the daughter of a pharmacist, the family moved to Germany when she was two years old. Some years later she began attending art schools, and moved back to Switzerland during the First World War.
At an exhibition in 1915, she met for the first time the German-French artist Hans/Jean Arp, whom she married shortly after.
It was during these years that they became associated with the Dada Movement, which emerged in 1916, and Taeuber-Arp's most famous works – Dada Head (Tête Dada; 1920) – date from these years.
They moved to France in 1926, where they stayed until the invasion of France during the Second World War, at the event of which they went back to Switzerland.
In 1943, she died in an accident with a leaking gas stove.
Despite being overlooked since her death, she is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century.
She trained in industrial design and craftsmanship in St. Gallen (Switzerland), then received training in Munich textile and woodworking.
She developed her own abstract formal vocabulary from geometric shapes. Her works also de-compartmentalised the arts, putting arts and applied arts on the same level.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp's work crosses all eras and mediums until her unfortunate death in 1943:
Her refined abstraction remains imbued with movement and rhythm, influenced by her practice as a dancer in the mid-1910s. Part of her husband's, who nevertheless claimed her influence, her work met with posthumous recognition that began in the mid-1950s.
Stamp celebrating artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp:
The Postage stamp of 2.56 Euros issued by La Poste France celebrating her work - "Le Bateau".
In Le Bateau, gouache on paper from 1917, an abstract checkerboard surrounds a window reserved for a few circular elements (boat, fireplace, smoke).
This geometric stylization of the boat provides a playful counterpoint to the geometric rigour of the orthogonal grid, in a melodic composition with joyful and luminous colors.
This is one of Taeuber-Arp's works in which figurative memories remain before it finally goes into abstraction."
Technical details:
Issue Date: 31.05.2021
Designer: Marion Favreau
Illustrator: Marion Favreau
Process: Heliogravure
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