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Works by Max Ernst

Hundred Headless Woman (1956) 115 copies
Max Ernst: A Retrospective (1975) 57 copies
Ernst (1975) 49 copies
Max Ernst: A Retrospective (1975) 26 copies
Max Ernst (1977) 22 copies
Max Ernst (1977) — Illustrator — 21 copies
Beyond painting (1700) 20 copies
Max Ernst (1969) 15 copies
Max Ernst Retrospective (2013) 15 copies
Inside the sight (1987) 11 copies
Tres novelas en imágenes (2008) 10 copies
Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog (1975) 7 copies
Homage to Max Ernst (1971) 5 copies
Max Ernst: The Sculpture (1990) 5 copies
Max Ernst (1981) 4 copies
Écritures (1970) 4 copies
Histoire Naturelle (1972) 4 copies
Max Ernst. Dadamax (1979) 3 copies
Le Néant et son double (1968) 2 copies
Paramyter (2010) 2 copies
Max Ernst 1 copy
Max Ernst (1978) 1 copy
Paintings (1969) 1 copy
Max Ernst 1 copy

Associated Works

The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell (1954) — Cover artist, some editions — 4,507 copies
The Crystal World (1966) — Cover artist, some editions — 1,203 copies
The Ubu Plays (1962) — Cover artist, some editions — 587 copies
Misogynies (1989) — Cover artist, some editions — 212 copies
Babylon (1927) — Illustrator, some editions — 144 copies
Art of the Surrealists (1995) — Illustrator — 110 copies
Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology (2001) — Contributor — 67 copies
Science Fiction (1973) — Artwork — 40 copies
L'âge d'or [1930 film] (1930) — Actor — 28 copies
Max Ernst (1973) 23 copies
Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution (2008) — some editions — 13 copies
Where or When (2005) 9 copies
Leonora Carrington: la mariée du vent (2008) — Author — 6 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Ernst, Max
Birthdate
1891-04-02
Date of death
1976-04-01
Burial location
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
Plot: Columbarium (Division 87)
Gender
male
Nationality
Germany (birth)
Birthplace
Brühl, Germany
Place of death
Paris, France
Places of residence
Brühl, Germany
Paris, France
Marseille, France
New York, New York, USA
Sedona, Arizona, USA
Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France
Education
University of Bonn
Occupations
Painter
Sculptor
Graphic Artist
Poet
Dadaist
Surrealist
Relationships
Guggenheim, Peggy (spouse)
Fry, Varian (rescue network)
Carrington, Leonora (lover)
Tanning, Dorothea (spouse)
Ernst, Jimmy (son)
Straus, Luise (spouse)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Art, 1974)
Short biography
Max Ernst, born in Brühl, Germany, was an avant-garde artist who helped found both the Dadaist and Surrealist movements and organize exhibitions of the works. In 1938, he separated from his wife and went to live and create art in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche in southern France with fellow artist Leonora Carrington. He was interned by the French authorities at Camp des Milles near Marseille as an "enemy alien" after the start of World War II in 1939, but released a few weeks later thanks to the intercession of friends, including Paul Éluard, and American journalist Varian Fry. When Nazi Germany occupied France, he was arrested by the Gestapo, but managed to escape and flee to the USA with his patron and lover Peggy Guggenheim, whom he later married. Along with other European refugee artists and friends, Ernst helped introduce new art forms to Americans. In 1948, he wrote the treatise Beyond Painting, which helped bring him publicity and financial success. In 1953, Ernst returned to live in France with his second wife, Dorothea Tanning. The Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais in Paris published a complete catalogue of his works.

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Just the idea of a "Surrealistic Novel in Collage" is enuf for me. Add Ernst's delicate touch & it's even better. Ultimately, though, I have to admit to getting a little bored by the technical uniformity of the prints used - even w/ Ernst's careful recycling.
 
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tENTATIVELY | 8 other reviews | Apr 3, 2022 |
Came for the art, enjoyed the art. Kinda meh on the rest of it.
 
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wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |


This is German artist Max Ernst's collage-novel. He beckons us to provide our own personal interpretation to the captions and surreal collages he constructed from old picture books and journal so that we create our own version of the story. I did exactly that – and created my own micro fiction below:

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Black Collage

I’m constructing a Max Ernst-like collage out of last night’s dream. Here are the pieces: a room, a toilet bowl, a boy named Danny who has one red eye and one green eye, a menacing black-hooded figure and a host of animals: opossum, Tasmanian devil, wallaby, aardvark, baboon, rabbit, mallard, chameleon, bullfrog and snake.

The dream consists of the following: Danny walks into a room with a toilet bowl at one end and all those animals, stacked one on top of another like a totem pole at the other.

“I would really like to have a pet,” shouts Danny.

Hearing his wish, the animals flee – fly, run and crawl straight for the toilet bowl. All the animals escape except one – Danny catches the mallard by its rump feathers just as it is about to disappear down the plumbing. Not wishing to be converted to pet status, the mallard plays possum, closing its eyes and flattening itself out like a rug. At this point the hooded figure enters and accuses Danny of engaging in tasteless black humor.


Now for the collage: I place Danny in the middle giving him grasping, outstretched hands. Since I’m working like Max Ernst, that is, constructing a collage in black-and-white, I attempt to convey the bizarreness of Danny’s eyes by giving him the eyes of a fly. I then paste the baboon, wallaby, rabbit, aardvark and snake beyond Danny’s grasp and position the toilet bowl at the bottom with a string of other animals – opossum, chameleon, bullfrog and finally the mallard – heading its way.

The one in the hood goes at the very top of the collage. As for his comment about black humor, I think it only appropriate to give this menacing figure the head of a Tasmanian devil. With such an absurd head, let’s see how seriously anybody takes his comment about bad taste.
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Glenn_Russell | 2 other reviews | Nov 13, 2018 |
(Paris: Éditions de Carrefour 1929) met een voorwoord van André Breton
 
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Faustroll | 2 other reviews | Aug 23, 2018 |

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