Marguerite Hagenbach

Receives primary and secondary education in Basel.

Receives commercial training in Basel.

Visits London to learn English.

Directs the secretariat at Pro Juventute in Basel.

Takes piano lessons at Basel conservatory.

Takes a long trip in Greece, followed later by others.

Meets Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, with whom she becomes friends, in the circle around the Basel collectors Annie and Oskar Müller-Widmann.

Stays on several occasions at the Hagenbach family holiday home in Ascona, sometimes with Arp and Taeuber-Arp.

After the Konstruktivisten exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, she acquires a work by Taeuber-Arp and another by Moholy-Nagy, thereby laying the foundations for a contemporary art collection of Concrete and Constructivist art.

Supports Arp and Taeuber-Arp financially during their exile in France and regularly buys their works.

Enrols in the Swiss women’s military service and works with the French Red Cross.

Following Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s death, which throws Arp into deep depression, she helps him to recover from his grief and supports him financially, allowing him to create sculptures in bronze.

Lives increasingly often at Arp’s home in Clamart. She relieves him from spending time on daily necessities, allowing him to focus on his work. She organizes various trips, to the USA, Mexico, Greece, Egypt, Jordan and Israel.

Contributes to the book on Arp’s sculptures, editing the descriptions of the works and the bibliography.

Purchases the property Ronco dei Fiori in Locarno-Solduno with Arp. Jean and Marguerite marry in Basel on 14 May.

Following the completion of the works on the house directed by the architect Fritz Bähler, the couple move into Ronco dei Fiori.

Converts to Catholicism.

The Arps give a large set of works to the City of Locarno and are granted honorary citizenship.

Death of her husband, following which she continues to champion the works of Arp and Taeuber-Arp, encouraging artistic and literary research.

Donates a large set of works to the Kunstmuseum Basel, followed by other donations to leading museums in Switzerland and abroad.

Founds the Associazione Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e. V. in Rolandsbeck, near Bonn.

The Fondation Arp is established in Clamart.

Creates the Fondazione Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, Ronco dei Fiori, bequeathing to it the remaining works in her collection, the Lascito Arp Svizzera, the library and the entire Ronco dei Fiori property.

Dies on 23 August 1994 in Locarno. She is buried in Locarno graveyard next to Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.