Meret Oppenheim belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Meret Oppenheim as German-Swiss surrealist artist and lyricist (1913–1985).
Meret Oppenheim was born at Berlin in 1913. Her recorded nationality is Germany. She trained at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Basel School of Design.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as photographer, lyricist and painter.
Her recorded movement is surrealism.
Among her best-known works are Meret Oppenheim fountain and Object. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Meret Oppenheim died in 1985, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Meret Oppenheim fountain
- Notable work: Object
- Movement: surrealism
