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Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

German, 1912-1975

Surrealist German artist Hans Bellmer produced images of contorted, disfigured or bound forms of usually pubescent women in drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures. He is best known for creating life-sized dolls and disassembled mannequins and used his art to explore themes of sexuality, lust and death as well as to express his viewpoints on politics and society, work through his own traumas and comment on Freudian psychoanalytic principles.

Bellmer was born in Katowice, Germany. He and his brother lived in constant fear of their stern father who showed the boys little affection. Childish play was forbidden by his cold father. Even though he passed university entrance exams, his father insisted that he work in factories and coal mines instead of furthering his education. His father did eventually agree to allow Bellmer to enter the engineering program at the Berlin Polytechnic but his true passion was art. 

In 1924, Bellmer quit school and became an illustrator and advertising designer for a left-wing publishing house. Upon discovering Dadaism, he associated with artists such as John Heartfield and George Grosz and attended lectures at the Bauhaus art school. As fascist politics took hold around him — Bellmer was living in Berlin when Hitler came to power, and his own father became a Nazi —  he was compelled to create art that reflected his anger and inner turmoil.  

Capitalizing on the manifesto of Surrealist André Breton that called for words to be cut up and rearranged, he created a series of mannequins, dressed as children’s dolls, that explored his own erotic obsessions and abusive relationships around him. With like-minded German artist Unica Zürn, Bellmer collaborated on related works that examined bondage and eroticism for 15 years. 

Many of Bellmer’s works can be found in public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the International Center of Photography in New York and the British Museum in London. 

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Artist: Hans Bellmer
'The Modest Rose' — 1970s Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'The Modest Rose', engraving and drypoint, edition 99, 1971. Signed and numbered '99/99' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the ful...
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1960s Surrealist Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Engraving, Drypoint

Les Crimes de l'Amour - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting. Hans Bellmer was a German artist, who, when...
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Aline et Valcour - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting. Hans Bellmer was a German artist, who, when...
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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L'Aigle Mademoiselle - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes passepartout. Hans Bellmer wa...
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La Philosophie dans le Boudoir - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful artwork is hand-signed. It comes from the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting. Hans Bel...
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Dialogue Entre un Prêtre et un Moribond - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes matting Hans Bellmer was a Ge...
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Juliette ou les Prospérités du Vice - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes matting. Excellent conditions....
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Les 120 Journées de Sodome - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes matting. Hans Bellmer was a G...
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1960s Modern Hans Bellmer Nude Prints

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Petit traite de Morale, Surrealist Nude by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German Title: Petit traite de Morale Year: 1968 Medium: Color Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches Frame Size: 20 x 16 inches
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La petite fille sur canape noir, Etching by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German Title: La petite fille sur canape noir Year: circa 1970 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 46/70 Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches Frame...
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Hans Bellmer - Woman - HandSigned Etching
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hans BELLMER Woman Original Etching Hand-Signed Edition: 108 / 150 Dimensions: 51 x 38 cm Circa 1970 Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz in 1902. At his father's insistence, he worked in a steel factory and a coal mine after finishing the examinations qualifying for university admittance. Nevertheless, Bellmer managed to do some art work and exhibit it in Poland in 1922/23. The work led to his arrest. While studying engineering at Berlin Polytechnic, Hans Bellmer met John Heartfield, Rudolf Schlichter and George Grosz. In 1924 Bellmer dropped out of engineering, worked as a book printer and then as an illustrator for Malik Verlag. That winter Bellmer took his first trip to Paris. After his marriage in 1927, Hans Bellmer worked as a commercial artist, attended lectures at the Bauhaus in the early 1930s and travelled to Italy and Tunisia. He refused to continue working as a sign of resistance to Fascism in 1933. To show his repudiation of Fascism and the aesthetic it propagated, Hans Bellmer began to construct girlish three-dimensional dolls, which he photographed in erotic poses. Some of these works were published by Bellmer at his own expense in 1934, others appeared in the Surrealist journal "Le Minotaure", ensuring Bellmer important ranking among Paris Surrealists...
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Les Crimes de l'Amour, Surrealist Nude by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German (1902 - 1975) Title: Les Crimes de l'Amour Year: 1968 Medium: Color Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 inches
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Dreamy Nude, Original etching, Handsigned
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Paris, FR
Hans BELLMER Dreamy Nude Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered by Artist, limited to 70 copies On Japanese paper 67.5 x 51.5 cm (26.5 x 20") Excellent condition
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