{"id":3030,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"unica-zurn","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":null,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1916-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Unica","lastname":"Zürn","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Unica Zürn","date_of_death":"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","cached_name_asc":"Zürn, Unica","stream_count_app":7,"gender":"female","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/034/485/large/Unica_Zurn.jpg?1483119712","poster_credits":"Photo © Leonore Mau","media_count":1,"items_count":3,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ubugallery.com/gallery/artists/unica-zurn/\"\u003eUnica Z\u0026uuml;rn\u003c/a\u003e grew up surrounded by exotic, ephemeral objects collected by her father, a cavalry officer stationed in Africa. Inspired perhaps in part by her father\u0026rsquo;s gifts from afar and a longing for greater contact with him, Z\u0026uuml;rn developed a rich fantasy life and a vivid imagination. This is evidenced in her dense, otherworldly drawings of fantastical creatures meticulously constructed out of finely rendered, obsessively repetitive shapes and lines. Already an accomplished author, Z\u0026uuml;rn produced most of her oeuvre during the 1950s and 60s while involved with the German Surrealist, Hans Bellmer. With Bellmer\u0026rsquo;s encouragement, Z\u0026uuml;rn began to experiment with \u0026ldquo;automatic\u0026rdquo; drawings and anagrams, natural extensions of her established interest in hidden meanings and coincidences. The 1960s were an intensely productive period for Z\u0026uuml;rn\u0026mdash;though one marked by her deteriorating mental health and the unraveling of her relationship with Bellmer. On October 19, 1970, Z\u0026uuml;rn leapt to her death from the balcony of the Paris apartment she had shared with Bellmer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"FR","place":"Paris","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}