Unica Zürn(1916-1970)
- Writer
Unica Zürn emigrated in 1953 from her native Berlin to Paris, in order
to live with the artist Hans Bellmer. There she exhibited drawings as a
member of the Surrealist group and collaborated with Bellmer on a
series of notorious photographs of her nude torso bound with string. In
1957, a fateful encounter with the poet and painter Henri Michaux led to the
first of what would become a series of mental crises, some of which she
documented in her writings. She committed suicide in 1970 - an act
foretold in her last completed work.
