Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Equilibre - Schlüsselwerke der Schweizer Kunst

Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) was a pioneer of 20th-century avant-garde. Remarkably versatile and immensely gifted, she produced an oeuvre that encompasses the entire range of the modernist movement from applied and fine art and dance to architecture, interior design, and teaching.
Equlibre, created in 1931, marks the beginning of Taeuber-Arp's career as an accomplished painter. She moves away from figuration to focus on shape and color. Circle, square, and rectangle define her future vocabulary. While in her earlier textiles she used multiple shades and hues, she now reduces her palette to primary colors alongside black and white, signaling a markedly changed sense of color.
The painting's posthumous title emphasizes Taeuber-Arp's constant striving for an ideal balance of color, shape, and indeed all the elements in her paintings. From here, she sets out to explore movement, circles, and spaces, and later gradations and lines. Equilibre, a landmark of Taeuber-Arp's oeuvre, looks ahead to her future subject matter, while at the same time referencing her earlier work.

About the author

Walburga Krupp
war lange Jahre Kuratorin der Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V. in Rolandseck. Sie ist Mitherausgeberin der 2020 erschienen Briefedition Sophie Taeuber-Arps.

Summary

Equilibre:
Sophie Taeuber-Arp's defining work as a painter

Product details

• Authors: Walburga Krupp
• Assisted by: Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath (Editor), Joel Scott (Editor), Joel Scott (Translation)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Languages: German, English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2020
• EAN: 9783858816627
• ISBN: 978-3-85881-662-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 614 g
• Illustrations: 39 farbige und 4 s/w-Abbildungen
• Series: Schlüsselwerke der Schweizer Kunst
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Moderne Kunst, Kunst, Verstehen, Avantgarde, einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Malerei und Gemälde, Malerei, Dada, bildende Kunst, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Equilibre, Schlüselwerke der Schweizer Kunst, Walburga Krupp, Schlüsselwerke der Schweizer Kunst