Max Ernst ( 1891-1976)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet.

Was born in Bruhl, Germany The third of nine children of middle class Catholic family.

His father was a teacher of the deaf and an amateur painter.

1909: studied in the University of Bonn and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients after visiting Asylums.

1911-1913: joined with the group of artists where works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin and who inspired and influenced him.

1914- 1918: served both Western and the Eastern front in the army during world war I, met Hans Arp and became friends and their relationship lasted for forty year.

1918: returned to Cologne and married art history student Luise Straus, but their marriage was short-lived, ended in 1921- they have a son, Ulrich Jimmy Ernst, was born 1920 , who also became a painter.

1922: illegally entered France, settled into a menage a trois with Eluard and his wife Gala in Paris Took various odd jobs to make a living and continued to paint.

1924: left Paris for long trips from Monaco to Saigon, Vietnam, sold a large number of his works. 1925: returned to Paris, signed a contract with Jacques Viot and established a studio at rue Tourlaque.

Invented a graphic art technique called frontage( Surrealism techniques) and created the grattage technique.

1934 : began to make sculpture.

1938: the American heiress and artistic Patron peggy Guggenheim acquired a number of his works which she displayed in her museum in London.

1939: world war II , after the NAZI occupied France, he was arrested again, but escaped and flee to America with help of Guggenheim and Fry.

1941: arrived in the United States, left his second wife Leonora Carrington and she suffered a major mental breakdown.

Guggenheim and Ernst were married (1941-1946) Lived in New York city and helped inspire the development of Abstract expressionism.

1946: met and married Dorothea tanning , was American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet who was born and raised in Illinois.

1948: they made their home in Sedona , Arizona and he began achieved financial success.

1953: they moved to a small town in the South of France ,continued to work and published a complete catalogue of his works 1966: created a chess set made of glass which he named “Immortel” 1976: died on April 1976 in Paris.

Surrealism and painting

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LA FUITE Max Ernst

Mestrs Da Pintura e Outros(design in nature, surrealism , 1947)

“the wheatherman”-Max Ernst, 1951

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The Garden of France,1962

Cocktail Drinker – 1945 by Max Ernst

Oedipus Rex By Max Ernst_ 1922

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MOON II Max Ernst - 1944

PAYSAGE ALPIN

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Max Ernst

QUI EST CE GRANDE MALADE...?

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Max Ernst

RÊVE D'UNE PETITE FILLE QUI VOULUT ENTRER AU CARMEL: ' ...OÙ NOUS AVIONS DRESSÉ UN PETIT PURGATOIRE...

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Max Ernst 1929

LA NAISSANCE DE VÉNUS

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Max Ernst 1957

LA LOUVE ROMAINE

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Max Ernst - 1954

IT'S A HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN

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MUSCHELBLUME

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Max Ernst

JEUNE FILLE CHANGÉE EN LOCOMOTIVE

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Max Ernst 1970

DEATH IS SOMETHING LIKE COUSIN CYNTHIA

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Max Ernst -1931

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HALLUCINATION Max Ernst - 1934

FORÊT ET SOLEIL After Max Ernst 1956

TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY

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Max Ernst 1945

DANCERS UNDER THE STARRY SKY

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Max Ernst -1951

OHNE TITEL

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Max Ernst 1925

FACILITÉ

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Max Ernst _1923

LA LOTERIE DU JARDIN ZOOLOGIQUE

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Max Ernst _1951

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SPECTACLE Max Ernst -1950

33 FILLETTES PARTANT POUR LA CHASSE AU PAPILLON BLANC

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Max Ernst _1957

PROJECT POUR UN MONUMENT A LEONARD DE VINCI

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Max Ernst -1957

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TÊTE D'HOMME Max Ernst _1971

DANSEUSES

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Max Ernst

STERNBILD II (NOCTURNE II)

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Max Ernst

HORSE AND COWS

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Max Ernst -1919

By Max Ernst

+ Follow this Artist -1924

Les visiteurs du dimanche

FLEURS EXOTIQUES

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Max Ernst -1928

SOUS MON BLANC VÊTEMENT, TENEZ-VOUS BIEN TRANQUILLES À LA PORTE DE MON AME, CHERS PETITS LAPINS! FRAPPEZ SANS ENTRER NI SORTIR ...

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Max Ernst -1929

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UNTITLED Max Ernst -1965

Jean CrottiPortrait of Edison 1920

COLORADEAU DE MDUSE

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Max Ernst - 1954

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COMPOSITION Max Ernst - 1917

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FESTIN XII. Max Ernst - 1974

GRACIEUSE (PREMIÈRE VERSION)

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Max Ernst

MUSCHELBLUMEN (COQUILLAGE-FLEURS)

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Max Ernst -1928

Untiled By

Max Ernst 1921