Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Hans Bellmer
(1902-03-13)13 March 1902
24 February 1975(1975-02-24) (aged 72)
Photography, sculpture, painting, and poetry
Die Puppe (1934), La Poupée (1935)
In popular culture[edit]
The 2003 film Love Object contains clear references to Bellmer's work, including the protagonist's obsessive relationship with a sex doll and the use of Bellmer's name as a leading character, Lisa Bellmer.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, a 2004 anime film, features elements of Bellmer's erotic and uncanny dolls.[11] Additionally, director Mamoru Oshii has referred to Bellmer's dolls as an inspiration for the film.[12]
A creature from the 2001 video game Silent Hill 2 named Mannequin bears a strong resemblance to Bellmer's dolls. However, Masahiro Ito, the monster designer of the game, commented on this saying that they had no influence on his design of the Mannequin; instead his inspiration came from traditional Japanese folklore.[13]
The New York–based avant-garde band Naked City used images of Bellmer's dolls for the front cover and liner notes of their final album, Absinthe.. * He was portrayed in the 2023 TV series Transatlantic.
1963: , Paris; "Hans Bellmer”
Galerie Daniel Cordier
1966: , London; Bellmer's de Sade Engravings (closed by police)
Robert Fraser Gallery
1967: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Kunst-Verein, Berlin; Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich; "Hans Bellmer”
1970: , Amsterdam; "Hans Bellmer”
Stedelijk Museum
1971: , Paris; "Hans Bellmer (retrospective)”
CNAC Archives
1975: ; "Hans Bellmer, Drawings and Sculpture.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1976: , Paris; Galerie Brusberg, Hannover; "Hommage à Hans Bellmer”
Galerie André Francois Petit
1983: Centre Georges Pompidou and Filipacchi, Paris; "Hans Bellmer, Photographe”
1984: , Hannover; "Hans Bellmer, Photographien”
Kestnergesellschaft
1985: , London; "Hans Bellmer”
Editions Graphiques
1990: , New York; "Hans Bellmer”
Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts
1991: , Champaign, IL; Hans Bellmer: Photographs
Krannert Art Museum
1992: , Issoudun; "Hans Bellmer par son Graveur Cécile Reims”
Musée Saint-Roch
1997: , Paris; "Bellmer Graveur, 1902–1975”
Musée-Galerie de la Seita
2001: , New York; Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer
International Center of Photography
2006: , Paris; "Hand Bellmer: Anatomie du Désir”; Whitechapel Gallery, London 'Hans Bellmer'
Centre Georges Pompidou
2010: Berlin; Double Sexus: Bellmer – Bourgeois
Neue Nationalgalerie
Die Puppe, 1934.
La Poupée, 1936. (Translated to French by Robert Valançay)
Trois Tableaux, Sept Dessins, Un Texte, 1944.
Les Jeux de la Poupée, 1944. (Text by Bellmer with Poems by )
Paul Eluard
"Post-scriptum," from Hexentexte by Unica Zürn, 1954.
L'Anatomie de l'Image, 1957.
"La Pére" in Le Surréalisme Même, No. 4, Spring 1958. (Translated to French by Robert Valançay in 1936)
"Strip-tease" in Le Surréalisme Même, No. 4, Spring 1958.
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, 1959.
Die Puppe: Die Puppe, Die Spiele der Puppe, und Die Anatomie des Bildes, 1962. (Text by Bellmer with Poems by Eluard)
Oracles et Spectacles, 1965.
Mode d'Emploi, 1967.
"88, Impasse de l'Espérance," 1975. (Originally written in 1960 for an uncompleted book by entitled L'Homme qui a Perdu son Squelette)
Gisèle Prassinos
The Doll, translated and with an introduction by Malcolm Green in a facsimile of the 1962 German edition, London, Atlas Press, 2005, 978-1900565141
ISBN
Fabrice Flahutez, « Hans Bellmer et Georges Bataille, une collaboration éditoriale », cat. exhib. (French) Sous le signe de Bataille. Masson, Fautrier, Bellmer, Christian Dérouet (curator), Musée ZERVOS à Vézelay, 2012.
Fabrice Flahutez, « Bellmer illustrateur de Bataille. Des pièces inédites au dossier des gravures d’Histoire de l’œil (1945–1947) », in Les Nouvelles de l’estampe, n°227–228, mars 2010, p. 27–32.(French)
Hans Bellmer: Anatomie du Désir (2006, [Éditions Gallimard / ]).(French)
Centre Pompidou
The Doll, Hans Bellmer, Atlas Press, London, 2006, trans. Malcolm Green (first complete translation of Bellmer's suite of essays, poems and photos from the final German version)
Sue Taylor. Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety (2002, Press).
MIT
Therese Lichtenstein, Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer, , 2001.
University of California Press
Fabrice Flahutez, « Hans Bellmer : l’anagramme poétique au service d’un rêve surréaliste », Histoire de l’art, n° 52, Paris, 2001, p. 79–94.(French)
Céline Masson, La fabrique de la poupée chez Hans Bellmer, Paris, éd. L'Harmattan, 2000.(French)
Pierre Dourthe, Hans Bellmer : Le Principe de Perversion, Paris, Jean-Pierre Faur Éditeur, 1999.(French)
Fabrice Flahutez, Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Hans Bellmer, Paris, Nouvelles Éditions Doubleff, 1999.(French)
. "Hans Bellmer:The Infestation of Eros", in A Hans Bellmer Miscellany, Anders Malmburg, Malmo and Timothy Baum, New York, 1993
Robert C. Morgan
Marvin Altner: Hans Bellmer, die Spiele der Puppe. Zu den Puppendarstellungen in der bildenden Kunst von 1914–1938. VDG-Verlag, Weimar 2005, 3-89739-467-7 (zugl. FU Dissertation, Berlin 2002)
ISBN
Renate Berger: Pars pro toto, Zum Verhältnis von künstlerischer Freiheit und sexueller Integrität. In: Renate Berger, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat (Hrsg.): Der Garten der Lüste, Zur Deutung des Erotischen und Sexuellen bei Künstlern und ihren Interpreten. DuMont, Köln 1985, S. 150–199, 3-7701-1627-5
ISBN
Alex Grall (Hrsg.): Die Zeichnungen von Hans Bellmer. Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin 1969
Malcolm Green: Introduction, in The Doll, Hans Bellmer, trans. Malcolm Green. Atlas Press, London 2006, 1-900565-14-5
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Therese Lichtenstein: Behind Closed Doors. The Art of Hans Bellmer. University of California Press, New York 2001, 0-520-20984-2
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Michael Semff/Anthony Spira (Hrsg.): Hans Bellmer. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, 978-3-7757-1793-9
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Sue Taylor: Hans Bellmer. The Anatomy of Anxiety. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2002, 0-262-20130-5
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Peter Webb, Robert Short: Hans Bellmer. Quartet Books, New York 1985
Peter Webb, Robert Short: Death, Desire and the Doll: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer. Solar Books, 2006.
showing the complete series of the first book, Die Puppe (in its French version, La Poupée, 1936).
SF MOMA page
Tate Collection Page
MoMA Collection Page
in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website