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ARP, HANS or JEAN
Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a romantic mysticism that is essentially German. (He wrote in both languages). He longed to escape from the conventional borders of modern life, into a community of the s (showing 500 of 5776 characters).
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