- Born Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp in 1886 in Alsace (still part of Germany at the time), he began studying art in his home town of Strasbourg, transferred to Weimar, completed his schooling in Paris and by 1911, had co-founded the first modern art alliance in Switzerland, Der Moderne Bund.
- With Der Moderne Bund, he worked for a brief period with Wassily Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter group in Munich, but soon returned to Paris where he hobnobbed with Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, as well as Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
- Neither fully French nor fully German, the artist referred to himself as "Jean" when speaking French, and "Hans" when speaking German.
- A restless thinker and a nomad, Arp was born into circumstances of uncertainty that shaped his path as an artist.
- Important Art by Hans Arp
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