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.
LA FUITE By Max Ernst
Mestrs Da Pintura e Outros(design in nature, surrealism , 1947)
“the wheatherman”-Max Ernst, 1951From : artiquarian
Cocktail Drinker – 1945by Max Ernst
Oedipus RexBy 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 Ernst1970
DEATH IS SOMETHING LIKE COUSIN CYNTHIA By Max Ernst -1931
HALLUCINATION By Max Ernst - 1934
FORÊT ET SOLEIL After Max Ernst1956
TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY By Max Ernst1945
DANCERS UNDER THE STARRY SKY By Max Ernst-1951
OHNE TITEL By Max Ernst1925
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