Meret Oppenheim died 40 years ago last November at the age of 72. When the Surrealist Manifesto was written and published by André Breton in Paris in 1924, Oppenheim was only 11 years old. While artists, philosophers and writers were already discussing new forms of art and society in the bars and cafés of Montparnasse and Montmartre and forming a common movement, she was still living with her family in Lörrach. In addition to André Breton, Paul Éluard and Max Ernst, other artists from all over Europe soon joined this group, such as the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

In 1932, Meret Oppenheim and Irène Zurkinden, then just 18 years old, boarded a train in Basel to Paris, where their Swiss acquaintances Kurt Seligmann, Hans Rudolf Schiess and Jean Arp were already firmly part of the Surrealist circle. Through them, Oppenheim met Man Ray, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Leonor Fini, Dora Maar and Marcel Duchamp.

After her return to Switzerland at the end of the 1930s, Oppenheim influenced many young Swiss artists, including Daniel Spoerri and Dieter Roth, with the impressions and insights she gained in Paris, which she developed into her very own, unmistakable artistic formal language.

The exhibition Unicorn Witch - Meret Oppenheim & Friends examines the influences that her encounter with the Surrealists in Paris had on Oppenheim's art. A second focus is her formative effect on the next generation of artists in Switzerland. Numerous works by her companions in the later course of her career are presented in the exhibition and bear witness to the radiance of Meret Oppenheim, who is now considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

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Number of parking spaces	250
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Only 5 minutes from Herford train station.

You will find a large number of parking spaces opposite in the Elsbach-Areal parking lot

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Price adult: €8.00

Price child: €5.00

Price reduced: €5.00

8 € p.p.

reduced and groups of 8 or more: € 5

Attention! Closed on Good Friday!

Combined ticket Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation / Marta Herford (day ticket, no further discount): € 15

Information on reduced prices: Reduction (on presentation of the relevant ID): Job seekers, young people (up to the age of 18), students and trainees (up to the age of 27), art historians, journalists, people with a disability (from GdB 50) and holders of the NRW volunteer card. Free of charge (on presentation of the relevant ID): Children and young people up to the age of 16 accompanied by their parents, tour guides of the city of Herford.

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