Max Ernst ( 1891-1976)
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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
LA FUITE
By Max Ernst
Mestrs Da Pintura e Outros(design in nature,
surrealism , 1947)
“the wheatherman”-Max Ernst, 1951
From : artiquarian
The Garden of France,1962
Cocktail Drinker – 1945
by Max Ernst
Oedipus Rex
By Max Ernst_ 1922
MOON II
By Max Ernst - 1944
PAYSAGE ALPIN
By Max Ernst
QUI EST CE GRANDE MALADE...?
By Max Ernst
RÊVE D'UNE PETITE FILLE QUI VOULUT ENTRER AU CARMEL: ' ...OÙ NOUS
AVIONS DRESSÉ UN PETIT PURGATOIRE...
By Max Ernst
1929
LA NAISSANCE DE VÉNUS
By Max Ernst
1957
LA LOUVE ROMAINE
By Max Ernst - 1954
IT'S A HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN
By Max Ernst
MUSCHELBLUME
By Max Ernst
JEUNE FILLE CHANGÉE EN LOCOMOTIVE
By Max Ernst
1970
DEATH IS SOMETHING LIKE COUSIN CYNTHIA
By Max Ernst -1931
HALLUCINATION
By Max Ernst - 1934
FORÊT ET SOLEIL
After Max Ernst
1956
TEMPTATION OF ST.
ANTHONY
By Max Ernst
1945
DANCERS UNDER THE STARRY SKY
By Max Ernst-1951
OHNE TITEL
By Max Ernst
1925
FACILITÉ
By Max Ernst _1923
LA LOTERIE DU JARDIN ZOOLOGIQUE
By Max Ernst _1951
SPECTACLE
By Max Ernst-1950
33 FILLETTES PARTANT POUR LA CHASSE AU PAPILLON BLANC
By Max Ernst _1957
PROJECT POUR UN MONUMENT A LEONARD DE VINCI
By Max Ernst -1957
TÊTE D'HOMME
By Max Ernst _1971
DANSEUSES
By Max Ernst
STERNBILD II (NOCTURNE II)
By Max Ernst
HORSE AND COWS
By Max Ernst -1919
By Max Ernst
+ Follow this Artist -1924
Les visiteurs du dimanche
FLEURS EXOTIQUES
By 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 ...
By Max Ernst -1929
UNTITLED
By Max Ernst -1965
Jean CrottiPortrait of Edison 1920
COLORADEAU DE MDUSE
By Max Ernst - 1954
COMPOSITION
By Max Ernst - 1917
FESTIN XII.
By Max Ernst - 1974
GRACIEUSE (PREMIÈRE VERSION)
By Max Ernst
MUSCHELBLUMEN (COQUILLAGE-FLEURS)
By Max Ernst -1928
Untiled By Max Ernst
1921