 |
Biography |
|
|
1902 |
|
Born in Upper Silesia, Germany |
|
|
1923 |
|
Studied engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin |
|
|
1924 |
|
Learned drawing and perspective from friend George Grosz |
|
|
1925 |
|
Began artistic career designing advertisements as a commercial artist and illustrating various Dada novels (such as Das Eisenbahnglück oder der Antifreud by Mynona). |
|
|
1975 |
|
Died in Paris, France |
|
|
Exhibitions |
|
|
2007 |
|
"EROS in der Kunst der Moderne," Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
|
|
2007 |
|
"busy going crazy," La Maison Rouge, Paris |
|
|
2007 |
|
"Hans Bellmer," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
|
|
2006 |
|
"Auktion 23," Lehr, Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin |
|
|
2006 |
|
"Hans Bellmer," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Galerie 1900-2000, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
|
|
2006 |
|
"FLUTTER," The Approach, London, UK |
|
|
2006 |
|
"Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
2005 |
|
"Dalí, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision," The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
|
|
2005 |
|
"Modernist Photography," International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
|
|
2005 |
|
"Auktion 20" and "Auktion 21," Lehr, Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin |
|
|
2005 |
|
"Extraordinary Visions," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY |
|
|
2005 |
|
"The White Rose," Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY |
|
|
2005 |
|
"Begierde im Blick: Surrealistische Photographie," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
|
|
2004 |
|
"Auktion 18" and "Auktion 19," Lehr, Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin |
|
|
2004 |
|
"The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection," The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
|
|
2004 |
|
"Im Rausch der Dinge," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
|
|
2004 |
|
"Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
|
|
2003 |
|
"Geografie del mistero. Metafisica, dada, surrealismo," Il Narciso Galleria d´arte contemporanea, Rome |
|
|
2003 |
|
"Valley of the Dolls," Modernism, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
2003 |
|
"Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst," Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
|
|
2003 |
|
"Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude," Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY |
|
|
2003 |
|
"Not Exactly Photographs," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
2002 |
|
"Rendez-Vous mit dem Surrealismus: Arbeiten auf Papier," Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne |
|
|
2002 |
|
"La Révolution surréaliste," Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
|
|
2001 |
|
"Sade surreal: Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus," Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
|
|
2001 |
|
"Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer," International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
|
|
2001 |
|
"Hypermental: Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit, 1950-2000, Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
|
|
2000 |
|
"Some Summer Surrealists," The Mayor Gallery, London, UK |
|
|
2000 |
|
"La collection photographique," les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
|
|
2000 |
|
"Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) Photographien und Zeichnungen aus den 30er Jahren," Galerie Berinson, Berlin |
|
|
1999 |
|
"Surrealism: Two Private Eyes," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
|
|
1999 |
|
"Hans Bellmer," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY |
|
|
1998 |
|
"Auf den Spuren des Surrealismus: Gemälde und Zeichnungen," Galerie Brockstedt Berlin, Berlin |
|
|
1998 |
|
"Private ficcions," Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
|
|
1998 |
|
"Imagined World," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY |
|
|
return to artnet.com