Les Jeux de la poupée

by Hans Bellmer

Artist Hans Bellmer (Tyskland, 1902 - 1975)

Alternate Title

The Games of the Doll
Dockans lek

Date1938-1949

MediumGelatin silver print, hand-colored, mounted on board

DimensionsBildmått: 13,9 × 14 cm Passepartout: 50 × 40 cm Ram: 50 × 40 × 3 cm

ClassificationPhotography

Credit LinePurchase 1999

Countries

Germany

On view

Stockholm

RoomGallery 01:6

Object NumberMOMF 1999 005 001

About the artworkHans Bellmer created his first articulated doll in Berlin 1933, after Hitler had taken power. His doll works have been interpreted as a protest against Nazi norms and ideals. Bellmer photographed his dolls in bizarre poses and sent the pictures to Breton, who published them in the magazine Minotaure the following year. The German regime declared Bellmer’s art to be entartete, "degenerate", and he was forced to flee to Paris in 1938, where he was embraced by the surrealists and worked for the French resistance. He shared a fascination for the grotesque and violence with the writer Georges Bataille. Eggs, eyes, testicles and breasts are part of the stock imagery in Bataille’s pornographic novel Story of the Eye (1928), which Bellmer illustrated in 1944.
Selected exhibition history Betingad rörelse (den 26 februari 2022 - den 29 januari 2023) Moderna Museet Malmö Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm ASYLUM (den 20 februari 2015 - den 17 maj 2015) Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm (tidigare Stockholms Stadsteater) En annan historia: Se världen! (den 16 april 2011 - den 31 december 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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