Nascimento: 6 de Julho de 1916 (54 years)
Falecimento: 19 de Outubro de 1970
Berlin, Germany
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.