Meret oppenheim biography of abraham

German-Swiss surrealist artist (1913–1985)

Meret (or Méret) Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.

Early life

Meret Oppenheim^[1] was born on 6 October 1913 in Berlin. She was named after Meretlein, a wild child who lives in the woods, from the novel Green Henry by Gottfried Keller.^[2][3] Oppenheim had two siblings, a sister Kristin (born 1915), and a brother Burkhard (born 1919).^[4] Her father, a German-Jewish^[5] doctor, was conscripted into the army at the outbreak of war in 1914.^[4] Consequently, Oppenheim and her mother, who was Swiss,^[5] moved to live with Oppenheim's maternal grandparents in Delémont, Switzerland.^[6] In Switzerland, Oppenheim was exposed to a plethora of art and artists from a young age, including Alfred Kubin, German Expressionists, French Impressionists and poems o