Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Hans Bellmer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German artist Hans Bellmer.

Last updated on November 3, 2024.

Hans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.

German - Artist | March 13, 1902 - February 24, 1975

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The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

Hans Bellmer

Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.

Hans Bellmer

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.

Hans Bellmer

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it

Hans Bellmer

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Hans Bellmer

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