Dada
Arp co-founded the movement in Zurich in 1916, in answer to the war's slaughter.
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An artistic and literary movement that arose in Zurich in 1916 among exiles who had fled the First World War. Its position was that a civilisation which produced that slaughter did not deserve serious art, and it answered with absurdity, chance, mockery and the refusal of every aesthetic rule. It looked like a joke at the time, but it opened the way to Surrealism, conceptual art and much of twentieth-century art.
By regional train from Bonn or Cologne directly to Rolandseck station — which is the station the museum occupies, a rare arrangement. The journey is about an hour from Cologne and fifteen minutes from Bonn. It combines with a river trip or with Bonn in one day.
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An art museum on the bank of the Rhine south of Bonn, combining a classical railway station of 1858 with a modern building by Richard Meier, the two linked by a tunnel and lift inside the hillside. That juxtaposition is half the experience: you enter through an elegant nineteenth-century station building that still receives trains, then pass through a tunnel in the rock and rise into a modern white space with glass walls overlooking the river. The station has a cultural history of its own: in the 1960s and 1970s it became an artistic centre where artists and musicians gathered, after being saved from demolition. The collection centres on Hans Arp and his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp, founders of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916 — the movement that answered the slaughter of the First World War with art refusing logic and seriousness. Arp's sculpture, with its curving organic forms, influenced the whole of modern sculpture. The riverside setting and the view are part of the visit.
Arp co-founded the movement in Zurich in 1916, in answer to the war's slaughter.
An artist and designer among the major women of the European avant-garde, and his partner in work.
You enter the museum through a station building that still receives trains.
Rolandseck station, on the Rhine bank south of Bonn