Max Ernst
Naissance d'une Galaxie
1969
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
- University of Bonn
Max Ernst moved from Cologne Dada into Surrealism and became one of the movement’s great technical inventors. Collage, frottage, grattage and decalcomania allowed him to generate images through accident and transformation rather than straightforward depiction.
Painting; collage; sculpture; frottage; grattage; printmaking
Objects
Major Works
- 1921Celebes
- 1924Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
- 1927Forest and Dove
- 1930Loplop Introduces Loplop
- 1935–36The Entire City
- 1937The Angel of the Home or the Triumph of Surrealism
- 1940The Attirement of the Bride
- 1940–42Europe After the Rain II
- 1948Capricorn
- 1962The Garden of France
Interviews & Writing
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