BELLMER Hans : LE MIROIR

Hans BELLMER

Bellmer (13 March 1902 - 23 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.

Exhibitions

• 2010: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin; Double Sexus: Bellmer - Bourgeois
• 2006: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; “Hand Bellmer: Anatomie du Désir”
• 2001: International Center of Photography, New York; Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer
• 1999: Ubu Gallery, New York; Galerie Berinson, Berlin; “Photographs and Drawings for the 30s”
• 1997: Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris; “Bellmer Graveur, 1902-1975”
• 1992: Musée Saint-Roch, Issoudun; “Hans Bellmer par son Graveur Cécile Reims”
• 1991: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; Hans Bellmer: Photographs
• 1990: Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York; “Hans Bellmer”
• 1985: Editions Graphiques, London; “Hans Bellmer”
• 1984: Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; “Hans Bellmer, Photographien”
• 1983: Centre Georges Pompidou and Filipacchi, Paris; “Hans Bellmer, Photographe”
• 1976: Galerie André Francois Petit, Paris; Galerie Brusberg, Hannover; “Hommage à Hans Bellmer”
• 1975: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; “Hans Bellmer, Drawings and Sculpture.
• 1971: CNAC Archives, Paris; “Hans Bellmer (retrospective)”
• 1970: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; “Hans Bellmer”
• 1967: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Kunst-Verein, Berlin; Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich; “Hans Bellmer”
• 1966: Robert Fraser Gallery, London; Bellmer’s de Sade Engravings (closed by police)
• 1963: Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris; “Hans Bellmer”