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