"The intrinsic decorative urge should not be eradicated. It is one of humankind's deep-rooted, primordial urges. Primitive people decorated their implements and cult objects with a desire to beautify and enhance....it is a sense emanating from the urge for perfection and creative accomplishment." Sophie Taeuber-Arp Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a key figure in many of the important movements of the pre-World War II art scene in Europe, and was one of the most active figures around the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich. She dedicated her career to breaking down static, artificial boundaries between genres and forms, and celebrating the creative energy such liberation released. Her creations attempted to destabilize traditional norms in art and society, and question fixed notions of gender, class, and nationality. Continued at http://www.theartstory.org/artist-taeuber-arp-sophie.htm Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp (19 Jan. 1889 – 13 Jan. 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, and dancer. She is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century. Born in Davos, Switzerland, Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber was the 5th child of Prussian pharmacist Emil Taeuber and Swiss Sophie Taeuber-Krüsi, from Gais in Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Switzerland. ... ...Taeuber-Arp is the only woman on the current series of Swiss banknotes in Switzerland; her portrait has been on the 50-franc note since 1995. A museum honouring Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp opened in 2007 in a section of the Rolandseck railway station in Germany, re-designed by Richard Meier. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp) undefined

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