Stiftung Arp

Since 1977, the Stiftung Arp e.V. has overseen a great part of the artistic estates of the Franco-German sculptor Hans Arp and of the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Its central purpose is to oversee the artists’ estates and to make their works accessible to the public. The Stiftung Arp e.V. also owns the copyright to his artistic oeuvre.

The foundation’s most important mission is to make the work of Arp and Taeuber-Arp accessible to a wide international audience through the support of exhibitions, loans and publications. The support of academic research on the work of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of its most important activities. The Stiftung Arp e.V. opened its archive in order to facilitate research on Hans Arp’s oeuvre. The archive and the collection are accessible on request at the Foundation’s Schaulager in Berlin.

Furthermore the Stiftung Arp e.V. awards research fellowships to both junior as well as senior academics and curators whose work engages with the art of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The works of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp will also be successively made available in two online databases.

Parts of the estates of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp are also cared for by the French Fondation Arp in Meudon and the Swiss Fondazione Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach in Locarno, which are located in the artist’s studio houses.