Jean ( Hans) Arp

Jean Arp, Hans Arp (16 September 1886 7 June 1966) was a GermanFrench sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of a French mother and a German father, he was born during the period following the FrancoPrussian War when the area was known as AlsaceLorraine (ElsassLothringen in German) after it had been returned to Germany by France. Following the return of Alsace to France at the end of World War I, French law deter