In the interwar period, the home of art-lovers and collectors Annie and Oskar M\u00fcller-Widmann in Basel was a meeting place for some of the most significant protagonists of modernism, including artists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The M\u00fcller-Widmanns soon became close friends of the couple and the first and foremost collectors of their works for many years.<\/p>\n
This volume is the first to publish in English the letters and postcards that Sophie Taeuber-Arp wrote to the M\u00fcller-Widmanns between 1932 and 1943. Her correspondence revolves around her artistic work, exhibitions, and other projects, but also speaks of the private circumstances of the life of an artist in the period leading up to World War II. Preserved in its entirety, the collection is a core testimony to Taeuber-Arp\u2019s life and work. Walburga Krupp, a leading expert on the artist and co-curator of the major retrospective Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction at Kunstmuseum Basel, London\u2019s Tate Modern, and the MoMA in New York in 2021\u201322, has annotated the transcribed and translated letters with insightful commentary and picks up on significant topics of this correspondence in an introductory essay. The book is illustrated with facsimile images of numerous postcards and letters as well as with works by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hans Arp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An annotated edition of distinguished Swiss avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s letters and post cards to her first and most important patrons and collectors, illustrated with facsimiles of these documents and commented by Walburga Krupp, a leading expert on the artist’s life and work.
A Self-Portrait in Words 6
\nWritings from the Fondazione Marguerite Arp
\nSimona Martinoli
\nA Remarkable Friendship 12
\nSophie Taeuber-Arp in her letters
\nto Annie and Oskar M\u00fcller-Widmann
\nWalburga Krupp
\nEditorial Note 24
\nTranslator\u2019s Note 25
\nLetters and Postcards 1\u201335 26
\nA Brief Chronology of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 124
\nIndex of Persons 126<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33934,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33933","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-fondazione-marguerite-arp","8":"publisher-scheidegger-und-spiess-ag-verlag","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n