Famous People with Name Arp

Jean Arp            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jean Arp: was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, Germany and in 1908 went back to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1915, he moved to Switzerland, to take advantage of Swiss neutrality. Arp later told the story of how, when he was notified to report to the German embassy, he avoided being drafted into the army: he took the paperwork he had been given and, in the first blank, wrote the date. He then wrote the date in every other space as well, then drew a line beneath them and carefully added them up. He then took off all his clothes and went to hand in his paperwork. He was told to go home.

Jean Arp / Hans Arp            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jean Arp / Hans Arp: was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of an French mother and a German father, he was born during the brief period following the Franco-Prussian War