Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)
A German artist and writer, Bellmer joined forces with the Paris Surrealists during the 1930s, contributing to the periodicalMinotaure. He is perhaps best known for The Doll, a series of startling objects, photographs and drawings, depicting doll parts arranged in provocative positions. Bellmer's highly erotic imagery exhibits a personal fascination with the human form, often presented in a disjointed and fragmented manner. He created paintings, sculptures, photographs, gouaches and drawings. Among his notable works are The Machine Gun in a State of Grace (1937),Peppermint Tower in Honor of Greedy Little Girls (1942), A Thousand Girls (1950), Self Portrait With Unica Zürn (1955) and Portrait of Wilfredo Lam (1958).
