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Max Ernst
Max Ernst was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and g…
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culture · German artist (1891–1976) · painter · sculptor · poet · graphic artist · lithographer · collagist · designer · jewelry designer · engraver · psychiatrist · also Max Ernst, Maximilian Ernst, Mx Ernst, Erunsuto, Ernst Max, Max Ernest
Born 2 April 1891 · Died 1 April 1976 · Q154842
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2020· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Birding with Max Ernst
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2005· 2 entries
Observer: Painter Max Ernst Brought Dark Grasp To European Terror
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"Max Ernst: A Retrospective" opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and included works like Celebes (1921), Ubu Imperator (1923), and Fireside Angel (1937), which is one of Ernst's few definitively political pieces and
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Goslarer Kaiserring (1976).
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Died 1976-04-01.
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Lichtwark Prize (1964).
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1954· 1 entry
Was awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale
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1938· 1 entry
The American heiress and artistic patron Peggy Guggenheim acquired a number of Max Ernst's works, which she displayed in her new gallery in London
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1927· 1 entry
Married Marie-Berthe Aurenche and it is thought his relationship with her may have inspired the erotic subject matter of The Kiss and other works of that year
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1925· 2 entries
Ernst invented a graphic art technique called frottage (see surrealist techniques), which uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images
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Ernst established a studio at 22, rue Tourlaque
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1924· 1 entry
Abruptly left, first for Monaco and then for Saigon, Vietnam
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1923· 1 entry
The Éluards moved to a new home in Eaubonne north of Paris, where Ernst painted numerous murals
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1922· 1 entry
Unable to secure the necessary papers, Ernst entered France illegally and settled into a ménage à trois with Éluard and his wife Gala in the Paris suburb of Saint-Brice, leaving behind his wife and son
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1921· 1 entry
Met Paul Éluard, who became a lifelong friend
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1919· 2 entries
Visited Paul Klee in Munich and studied paintings by Giorgio de Chirico
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Ernst, social activist Johannes Theodor Baargeld and several colleagues founded the Cologne Dada group
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1918· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.
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Ernst was demobilised and returned to Cologne
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1914· 1 entry
Ernst met Hans Arp in Cologne
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1912· 1 entry
Max Ernst visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced him
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1911· 1 entry
Max befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists, deciding to become an artist
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1909· 2 entries
Max Ernst enrolled in the University of Bonn, to read philosophy, art history, literature, psychology, and psychiatry
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While studying at the University of Bonn, and later joined Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-04-02.
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