Skip to main content

Published on 2 September 2025

Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Living Abstraction in the 20th century

Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the greatest Swiss artists of the 20th century. A multi-talented pioneer at the forefront of abstract art and the applied arts, she has been the subject of retrospectives in several major museums around the world, celebrating the scope and modernity of her work.

Left: portrait of Sophie Taeuber-Arp smiling in bust view with upstyled hair and dark attire; right: a cubist wooden sculpture head on a stand in front of her.