Méret Oppenheim (1913 – 1985) was a German-born Swiss, Surrealist artist and photographer. Member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and other writers and visual artists. Besides creating art objects Oppenheim also famously appeared as a model for photographs by Man Ray.
Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The photography collection goes back as far as 1840. Moderna Museet is commissioned to collect, preserve, exhibit and organise learning activities relating to all forms of 20th and 21st century art.
