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==Personal life and death== Arp and his first wife, the Swiss artist [[Sophie Taeuber-Arp]], became French nationals in 1926.<ref name="Jean Arp"/> In the 1930s they bought a piece of land in [[Clamart]] and built a house at the edge of a forest. Influenced by the [[Bauhaus]], [[Le Corbusier]] and [[Charlotte Perriand]], Taeuber designed it.<ref name=Glimpses>Saskia De Rothschild (14 February 2013), [http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/glimpses-of-jean-arps-world/ Glimpses of Jean Arp's World] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> She died in 1943 in [[Zürich]], where they had moved to escape the German occupation of France, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. After living in Zürich, Arp was to make Meudon his primary residence again in 1946.<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/990 Jean Arp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220065444/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/990 |date=20 February 2014}} [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref> In 1959 Arp married the collector Marguerite Hagenbach (1902–1994), his long-time companion.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hans (Jean) Arp|url=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/artists/|publisher=National Gallery of Art|access-date=12 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712032543/http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/artists/|archive-date=12 July 2014}}</ref> He died in 1966, in [[Basel]], Switzerland.
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