Artist: Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)
Nationality: German
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Max Ernst studied psychology at Bonn University. He associated with Arp, Macke, and the Blaue Reiter group and headlined the first Dada exhibition in 1919. He frequently used a technique called frottage, the rubbings of textured surfaces and combined unrelated images in one composition. Ernst spent part of World War II in a Nazi prison camp, and then lived the remainder of his life in the United States.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Josef Breitenbach - Max Ernst, Paris 1938 bromoil print High Museum of Art
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Max Ernst, Etoile de Mer (Star of the Sea), 1950
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Max Ernst, Paysage Arizona, 1960
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Max Ernst, Les Correspondances Dangereuses, 1947
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Ernst Fuchs, Hiob (Job), 1963
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Ernst Barlach, Fluch (curse), 1922
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Ernst Barlach, Verfluchung (damnation), 1912
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Ernst Barlach, The Dog Catcher (die Hundefaergerin), 1919
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Ernst Barlach, Berufung (This Call), 1922
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Dichter Sch., 1927
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Max Ernst, Rhythmic Composition, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cows in the Moonlight, 1918
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Ernst Fuchs, Emanuel, 20th century
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Ernst Klotz, Maedchenkopf, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street Scene, 1915
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Ernst Moritz Geyger, Der Riese (The Giant), 1895
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kopf Sohn Hardt, 1915
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Johann Ernst Heinsius, Portrait of a Man, 18th - 19th century
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Ernst Barlach, Die Wandlungen Gottes: Die Felsen, 1920
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Ernst Barlach, Die Wandlungen Gottes:Der siebente Tag, 1920
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Ernst Barlach, Die Wandlungen Gottes: Totentanz II, 1921
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Ernst Barlach, Witches Ride, 19th - 20th century
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Rudolph Ernst, Art has no Country, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Die Rast: (The Rest), 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Woman Carrying Bundle, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Barlach, Der Arme Vetter, 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum der Stadt Hagen: Call for Artists: Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize
The prize will be awarded by a jury of renowned experts for the best design for an exhibition to be held in the great hall of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum. Applicants must be at least 35 years old and must already have had at least one exhibition...
Zenith Gallery: Connected: Drew Ernst
Drew Ernst (b. 1979 OH) attended the highly respected Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America's oldest fine arts school. During his four years there, he polished his painting skills through studying with accomplished artists...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Max Ernst: Sculptures
As of the end of the 20s, Max Ernsts interest in sculpture as an autonomous discipline became more evident and his plastic production became increasingly independent of his pictorial production, developing its own stylistic direction: in sculpt...
Bundeskunsthalle: Today is Tomorrow: On the Future of Experience and Construction
Among those invited to take part are experts from the fields of semiotics, philosophy and sociology, architecture and psychology, literature and ...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting. Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...
Saarland Museum: Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Watercolors and Gouche
Für Nay diente die Zeichnung als Vorbereitung eines Gemäldes oder es war – ebenso wie das Aquarell – ein gleichrangiges Ausdrucksmittel neben der Ölmalerei. Als Me...
British Museum: Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation, 1945 - 1952
Symbolic of this process was the meeting of the American graphic artist Ernst Hacker ( 1917 - 87 ), posted to Tokyo in Spring 1946, with Onchi and this circle and Munakata Shiko ( 1903 - 75 ), who was then almost unknown. On joining Onchi's influe...
Orlando Museum of Art: Traces of a Friendship: Photographs of Alberto Giacometti by Ernst Scheidegger
In 1990 Scheidegger published Traces of a Friendship. Alberto Giacometti, a book featuring a small selection of the numerous photographs he had taken of Giacometti and the artist’s work over a period of more than 20 years. The current exhibition i...
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
This exhibition, which was first shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, brings together the entire Ariadne series, including such masterpieces as The Soothsayer's Recompense (1913), along with related drawings and sculpture, including an antique...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond
Birthday announces an artist who emerged into the public eye with a fully formulated vision and exquisitely flawless technique, says Ann Temkin, The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contempora...
Menil Collection: SURREALISM + Wunderkammer
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Menil Collection: SURREALISM + Witnesses (a Surrealist Wunderkammer)
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Photographs by Josef Breitenbach
Breitenbach began taking photographs while travelling as a wine merchant with his family's firm in the 1920s. He established a successful portrait studio in his native Munich in 1932, but as a Jew involved in left-wing politics, was forced to fle...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery: Last Chance! Relics from Rustic Animations
Bruce Currie is an enigmatic entertainer - an actor, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. The folkloric nature of his stories and characters belies the polish and technical intricac...
Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery: Relics from Rustic Animations
Bruce Currie is an enigmatic entertainer - an actor, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. The folkloric nature of his stories and characters belies the polish and technical intricac...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Graham Fletcher: Wish-landscapes
Thus these wish-landscapes, conceived by the imagination of the artist, represent the search for a landscape of virtual perfection. In this exhibition, Fletcher's numerous experiments with paint and surface have manifested a diverse range of wish-...
Museen der Stadt Wien: Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science and the Unconscious
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Diane Farris Gallery: Kathryn Jacobi: The Minor Pantheon
Inspired by the surrealist artists, in particular, Max Ernst and Paul Klee, the paintings are a meditation on the randomness of fate. Thematically they present history as a game, a puzzle. Things are not what they seem - are fragmented and tr...
Loop Gallery: Time, Space, Thought: Andrea Maguire
Andrea Maguire lives and works in Toronto where she has both taught and holds an active studio practice. She has exhibited extensively in both Canada and internationally. She was recently invited to Japan to exhibit her installation, "Time, Space,...
Appleton Museum of Art: A Distant Muse
The Dahesh Museum of Art, the only museum in the United States dedicated to European academic art of the 19th and 20th centuries, has from its inception recognized the importance of Orientalism in the cultural history of the West and now has an ex...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Gallery of Photography: The Lives of Lee Miller
Lee Miller, 1927, New York. A classically beautiful young woman, Lee Miller is discovered by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalised by Steichen, Hoynigen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographs. While modelling for them, she ...
MoMA QNS: Masterworks of German Expressionism
Also featured are works by artists active after World War I, such as Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, who found that the bold, graphic use of black-and-white printmaking perfectly suited their stark, socially critical imagery. Printmaking was of c...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Recent Gifts of Photojournalism
40 photographs from these two gifts have been selected for the display by the distinguished art historian Professor David Alan Mellor, this year's V&A/University of Sussex Research Fellow. The display explores four key themes of mid 20th ce...
Ketterer Kunst: Spring Auctions Begin With Modern Art on Paper in Hamburg
Nu pour Cleveland was made 14 years earlier. This signed engraving of 1932 by Henri Matisse is more than just an appreciation of femininity. It is estimated at DM 15,000 - 17,000. Another outstanding work of the auction is Marc Chagalls Piro...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Art League Houston: Watermelon Flats 1987+15: The BBAP Board Show
What is now the Buffalo Bayou ArtPark is the direct descendant of that show. Since 1987 BBAP has exhibited over 100 artists on the banks of Buffalo Bayou and in other various locations in Houston.  Art League Houston is honored to celebrate the an...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...

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