max ernst ( 1891-1976) was a german painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet. was born in bruhl,...

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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.

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Page 1: 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

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.

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Oedipus RexBy Max Ernst_ 1922

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

By Max Ernst 1929

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33 FILLETTES PARTANT POUR LA CHASSE AU PAPILLON BLANC By Max Ernst _1957

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By Max Ernst+ Follow this Artist -1924

Les visiteurs du dimanche

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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

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Jean CrottiPortrait of Edison 1920