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BELLMER Hans
(1902-1975)
"Rephysiologisating the vertigo of passion until the invention of desire"
Hans BELLMER, a few dates

1902 Born the 13th March in Katowice (Poland).
1923 studied at the Institute of Technology in Berlin and met dadaist artists.
1924
1926
1933 Hans Bellmer made his first « Doll », an enactment of a woman made with paper and strong glue.
1934
1935
1936
1937
1940
1944
1947 Jean Brun introduced him to the editor, Jean-Jacques Pauvert who ran a gallery. Bellmer illustratated "Story of the eye", written by his friend Georges Bataille.
1953 met his future wife and muse, the poet Unica Zürn.
1957 publication in Paris of his book "Little Anatomy of physical unconscious", which he wrote when he was prisoneer at the Milles camp.
1960
1965
1968
1970
1972
1975