Hans bellmer photographer biography samples
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CADAVRE EXQUIS OR THE VOLUPTUOUS DECAY OF THE SHIVERING VEIL
Initiated by Stanislava Kovalčíková
November 15, 2023 - January 13, 2024
PRESS TEXTBIO
HANS BELLMER, *1902 Kattowitz, PL; †1975 Paris, FR
Hans Bellmer was born on 13 March 1902 in Kattowitz, Germany. After receiving his baccalauréat in 1921, he left for Kassel to work in a coal mine. Whilst there, he came in contact with the writings of Lenin and Marx; read Zola, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Poe and Wilde; and became familiar with Berlin Dada, discovering the works of Ernst, Arp, Grosz, Dix, Tzara and Klee. This was a formative period, where he would develop a revolutionary and provokativ spirit that would define him for the rest of his life. Between 1922 and 1924, his father enrolled him in the Berlin Technische Hochschule to study engineering.
Bellmer acquainted han själv with Grosz and Heartfield in Berlin, the former commenting on his drawing ability. In 1924, he began working as a typographer and bookbinder for
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Hans Bellmer
FRAME DETAILS & ELEMENTS
Frame
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Summary of Dada and Surrealist Photography
In post-WWI Germany and Paris, a ground-breaking practice of photography emerged, inspired by Dada's improvisational practices and the Surrealist's foray into the unconscious, dream, and fantasy realms. Whereas photography had been widely used as a tool to document reality, artists began to work with the camera and progressive techniques to create images jarringly detached from photography's original uses. These visuals oftentimes challenged the viewer's perceptions with a strong basis in conceptualism, conjuring the uncanny, ethereal, or unordinary. Other times, they emphasized the artist's intent, by presenting familiar images unlatched from their usual context, inviting new perspectives of the ordinary. This practice would spread to America and become a forebear to the decades-long exploration of the possibilities of the photographic image that remains common in today's art world.
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