Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Equilibre: Landmarks of Swiss Art

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist who was a pioneer of the 20th-century avant-garde. Equilibre, created in 1931, marked the beginning of her career as an accomplished painter. She focused on shape and color, using primary colors alongside black and white. The painting is a landmark of her oeuvre and looks ahead to her future subject matter, while referencing her earlier work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2022
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

Sophie Taeuber-Arp(1889-1943) was a pioneer of 20th-century avant-garde. Remarkably versatile and immensely gifted, she produced an oeuvre that encompasses the entire range of the modernist movement from applied and fine art and dance to architecture, interior design, and teaching.

Equilibre ,created in 1931, marks the beginning of Taeuber-Arp's career as an accomplished painter. She moves away from figuration to focus on shape and colour. Circle, square, and rectangle define her future vocabulary. While in her earlier textiles, she used multiple shades and hues, she now reduces her palette to primary colours alongside black and white, signalling a markedly changed sense of colour.

The painting's posthumous title emphasises Taeuber-Arp's constant striving for an ideal balance of colour, shape, and indeed all the elements in her paintings. From here, she sets out to explore movement, circles, and spaces, and later gradations and lines.

Equilibre , a landmark of Taeuber-Arp's oeuvre, looks ahead to her future subject matter, while at the same time referencing her earlier work.

Text in English and German.

Weight: 622g
Dimension: 235 x 217 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783858816627