Personal life and death Arp and his first wife, the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, became French nationals in 1926. In the 1930s they bought a piece of land in Clamart and built a house at the edge of a forest. Influenced by the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Taeuber designed it.Saskia De Rothschild (14 February 2013), Glimpses of Jean Arp's World The New York Times. She died in 1943 in Zürich, where they had moved to escape the German occupation of France, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. After living in Zürich, Arp was to make Meudon his primary residence again in 1946.Jean Arp Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Personal life and death Arp and his first wife, the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, became French nationals in 1926. In the 1930s they bought a piece of land in Clamart and built a house at the edge of a forest. Influenced by the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Taeuber designed it.Saskia De Rothschild (14 February 2013), Glimpses of Jean Arp's World The New York Times. She died in 1943 in Zürich, where they had moved to escape the German occupation of France, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning After living in Zürich, Arp was to make Meudon his primary residence again in 1946.Jean Arp Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.