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About Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer (March 13, 1902 in Kattowitz, Germany – February 23, 1975 in Pa-ris, France) was a German artist specialized in painting, photography, sculpture, etching and drawing. He was one of he most important Surrealist artists.

His work, often associated with vocabulary of perversion remains a poetic affir-mation of Surrealism in this its most radical form. The relative closeness of The Doll’s photographs with the Freudian Unheimliche, places his work on the edge between eroticism and death, between the animate and the inanimate. The doll’s body, as well as his drawings and etchings, deal with oneiric universes in which the conciliation of opposites is made possible, in accordance to André Breton’s Manifeste du surréalisme. Bellmer also illustrated texts by the Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, Lautréamont, Pauline Réage, etc.

Specifications

• Ca 1935 • Ink on paper• 25,7 x 19 cm• Signed in the lower right corner• An etching of this drawing was made by Cécile Reims in 1968.

• Provenance: - Georges Hugnet, Paris

• Exhibition: - Bellmer / Piene, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 15.11.2008-17.01.2009 - Corpo Automi Robot, Museo d’Arte della Città di Lugano, 25.10.2009-21.02.2010