Méret Oppenheim
Painting, Visual Artist
1913 – 1985
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Who was Méret Oppenheim?
Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim was a German-born Swiss, Surrealist artist, and photographer. Oppenheim was a member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and other writers and visual artists. Besides creating art objects, Oppenheim also famously appeared as a model for photographs by Man Ray, most notably a series of nude shots of her interacting with a printing press.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1913
Charlottenburg - Also known as
- Meret Oppenheim
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Lived in
- Berlin
- Died
- Nov 15, 1985
Basel
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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