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The Museum of Avant-garde

Max Ernst

Germany (1891—1976)
With the favour and support of his father, Max Ernst discovered art since his early age. His painting career started when he decided to join Die Rheinishen Expressionisten led by August Macke but was suddently interrupted by WWI. Only in 1919 Ernst restarted to paint in Munich and founded a Dada group in Cologne, later joined by Hans Arp. In 1921 he met Breton and Paul Éluard: he collaborated with both creating illustrations for books and poems of the two artists. After a trip to South East Asia, he returned to Paris and in 1924 he founded the Surrealism movement. During these years he also experimented different techniques: the frottage and later the grattage, developed with Miró. With the start of WWII, he managed to escape a French camp and finally reached the US. There he continued his work using different media and techniques, from drawings to illustrations, to collages to decalcomania. After the war he turned his style into Abstract Expressionism: in his later years he became less experimental but continued to work on different art forms.
André Breton / Paul Éluard / Joan Miró
Andreas Feininger / John Heartfield / Lucia Moholy / Walter Peterhans / Franz Roh / Jan Tschichold / Umbo (Otto Umbehr) / Piet Zwart / Eugène Atget / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Hans Finsler / Arvid Gutschow / Brett Weston / Max Ernst / Florence Henri / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Foto-auge

76 Fotos der Zeit / Photographic book with letterpress cover by El Lissitzky / Heliogravure / 20.6 x 29.2 cm / Stuttgart, 1929 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Wyndham Lewis / Umberto Boccioni / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Crotti / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Raoul Hausmann / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Mécano

Magazine / Letterpress / Various sizes / Leiden, 1922-1924

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Max Ernst

La femme 100 têtes

Illustrated book / 147 reproductions after collages / 19.2 x 25.1 cm / Chartres, 1929 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Georges Hugnet / André Masson / Raoul Ubac / Jean Arp / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / René Magritte / Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara / Marc Chagall / Henri Matisse

Minotaure

Revue artistique et littéraire / Magazine / 23.6 x 31.5 cm / Paris, 1933-1939

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Paul Joostens / Jean Arp / Max Ernst / René Magritte / Francis Picabia / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara

Œsophage

Magazine / Letterpress / 22.4 x 28.4 cm / Bruxelles, 1925

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Jean Arp / Max Ernst / Tristan Tzara

Der Sängerkrieg

Magazine / Letterpress and woodcuts / 21 x 31.4 cm / Paris, 1921

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Max Ernst

Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux

Serial novel / Line block after collages / 27.8 x 20.8 cm / Paris, 1934 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Jean Arp / Max Ernst

Bulletin D

Booklet / Letterpress and line block / 17.5 x 23 cm / Köln, 1919 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Enrico Prampolini / Walter Serner / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Bleu

Magazine / Letterpress / 25 x 37 cm / Mantova, 1920-1921

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Paul Éluard / Max Ernst

Les malheurs des immortels

Illustrated book / 21.7 x 32.8 cm / 1922 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Richard Hülsenbeck / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Calendrier 20

Magazine / 22.9 x 19.5 cm / Paris, 1919

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Richard Hülsenbeck / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dadameter

Die Schammade / Magazine / Letterpress with woodcuts / 22.9 x 29.4 cm / Berlin, 1920 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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Jean Cocteau / Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada Phone 7

Journal / Letterpress / 18.8 x 28.1 cm / Paris, 1920 / © 2020 Christophe Tzara

Philippe Soupault / Jean Arp / André Breton / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Proverbe

Feuille mensuelle pour la justification des mots / Journal / Letterpress / 13.9 x 21.4 cm / Paris, 1920-1921

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Max Ernst / Kurt Schwitters

La loterie du jardin zoologique

Illustrated book / 12.7 x 16.3 cm / Paris, 1951

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Yves Tanguy / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / René Magritte / Vladimir Mayakovsky / Joan Miró / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara

Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution

Journal / Letterpress / 20 x 28.5 cm / Paris, 1930-1933

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Max Ernst

La ballade du soldat

By George Ribemont-Dessaignes / Illustrated book / 34 original lithographs / 27.8 x 38.2 cm / Vence, 1972

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