Hans Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them.
10 Facts About Hans Bellmer
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Hans Bellmer was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka.
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Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority.
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The dolls incorporated the principle of "ball joint", which was inspired by a pair of sixteenth-century articulated wooden dolls in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Jonathan Hirschfeld has claimed that Hans Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state.
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Hans Bellmer visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Eluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis.
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Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Hans Bellmer took at the time of its construction.
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Yet Hans Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Hans Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
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Hans Bellmer aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports.
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Hans Bellmer was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
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Hans Bellmer was portrayed in the 2023 TV series Transatlantic.