阿尔普出生在斯特拉斯堡，一个儿子的法国母亲和一个德国人的父亲，在之后的期间普法战争时，该地区被称为阿尔萨斯-洛林（阿尔萨斯-Lothringen德语）后法国有它割让给德国的1871年随着阿尔萨斯法国在年底返回的第一次世界大战，法国法律决定他的名字成为吉恩。

1904年，在离开后，学校des Metiers艺术在斯特拉斯堡，他去了巴黎，在那里他出版了他的诗集首次。从1905年到1907年，阿尔普就读于Kunstschule在魏玛，德国，并在1908年回到巴黎，在那里他参加了Académie朱利安。ARP是摩登外滩卢塞恩的创始人成员，参加了他们的展览，从1911年到1913年

1912年，他来到慕尼黑，呼吁康定斯基，有影响力的俄罗斯 画家和美术理论家，由他在他的研究，鼓励和展出的蓝骑士团。那年晚些时候，他在一家大型参加展览在苏黎世，随着马蒂斯，罗伯特·德劳内和康定斯基。在柏林，在1913年，他被带到了由Herwarth瓦尔登，谁当时在欧洲前卫最有权势的人物之一，经销商和杂志编辑-garde。

1915年，他移居瑞士采取瑞士的中立性的优势。阿尔普后来告诉怎么样，当他被通知到德国领事馆报告的故事，他避免被选中进入德国陆军：他把给了他的文书工作，并在第一个空白，写的日期。然后，他写了所有其他空间的日期为好，然后将他们拉到下方的线，小心地加入他们。然后他脱掉所有的衣服，走到他的文书工作的手。

ARP是的创始成员达达运动在苏黎世于1916年。1920年，汉斯·阿尔普，随着马克斯恩斯特和社会活动家阿尔弗雷德·格伦瓦尔德，他成立了科隆的 达达集团。然而，在1925年，他的作品也出现在了第一展超现实主义小组在画廊皮埃尔在巴黎。

1926年，阿尔普搬到巴黎郊区的默东。1931年，他以打破超现实主义运动中抽象创作，与总部位于巴黎的组抽象创作和期刊，工作过渡。20世纪30年代开始，艺术家扩大了他的拼贴和浅浮雕的努力，包括青铜和石雕。他制作由多个元素的几个小作品，观众可以拿起，分离和重新组合成新的配置。

在整个20世纪30年代，直到他生命的尽头，他撰写并发表散文和诗歌。1942年，他从老家逃到默东逃避德军占领，居住在苏黎世直到战争结束。

阿尔普参观了纽约市在1949年的个展瓦斯画廊。1950年，他被邀请到执行的救济哈佛大学研究生中心在剑桥，马萨诸塞州和也将委托在做壁画UNESCO大楼巴黎。

Arp was born in Strasbourg, son of a French mother and a German father, after the Franco Prussian War period, the area was known as Alsace Lorraine (German Alsace -Lothringen) after it was ceded to France in Germany in 1871 as the first World War Alsace France to return at the end of his decision to French law name as jean.
In 1904, after leaving school at Des Metiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris, where he published his first book of poetry. From 1905 to 1907, he studied at Kunstschule in Weimar, Germany, and returned to Paris in 1908, where he attended Acad Julian mie. ARP is the founder of modern the Bund, Luzern, who attended their exhibition, from 1911 to 1913
In 1912, he came to Munich to appeal to Kandinsky, an influential Russian painter and art theorist, inspired by him in his studies, and exhibited the blue knights. Later that year, he took part in a large exhibition in Zurich, along with Matisse, Robert Delaunay and Kandinsky. In Berlin, in 1913, he was brought up by Herwarth Walden, one of whom was in the European avant-garde most powerful figures, dealers and magazine editor -garde.
In 1915, he moved to Switzerland to take advantage of Switzerland's neutrality. Appleton later told how, when he was told to report to the German Consulate's story, he avoided to be drafted into the German Army: he gave his paperwork, and in the first blank, write the date. Then he wrote all the other space dates as well, and then pulled them down to the line, adding them carefully. Then he took off all his clothes and went to his paperwork.
ARP is a founding member of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916. In 1920, Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst and activist Alfred Grunwald, who founded the Cologne dada group. However, in 1925, his works also appeared in the first exhibition surrealist group at the gallery Pierre in Paris.
In 1926, moved to the outskirts of Paris Meudon appleton. In 1931, he worked to break the Surrealist movement of abstract creation, with the Paris based group of abstract creations and journals, working in transition. Beginning in 1930s, the artist expanded his collage and bas relief efforts, including bronze and stone carving. He made several small pieces of multiple elements, the audience can pick up, separate and regroup into a new configuration.
Throughout the 1930s, until the end of his life, he wrote and published prose and poetry. In 1942, he fled to escape from his home in Meudon occupation, living in Zurich until the end of the war.
A visit to the New York exhibition in 1949 at the gas gallery. In 1950, he was invited to perform at the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and will also be commissioned to do the mural UNESCO building in Paris.