Max ErnstFrance, 1891–1976Janus
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, États-Unis
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About the sculpture
Max Ernst's creative impulses and active imagination were catalysts to a career of innovation and prolific output that bridged all artistic media with his interest in sculpture awakening in the 1930s. A founder of the Dada movement in Cologne, he also helped found and lead the Surrealist movement in Paris. Ernst's career-long inspiration was drawn from non-Western and natural sources that embodied what he saw as universal forms of expression. These forms often took on an impish aspect out of the artist's conscious effort to debunk the serious side of art through the introduction of playfulness. Thus, in Janus Ernst converted the theme of the ancient Roman god of gates and doorways (who had two faces, one looking in each direction) into a sexually bi-polar totem through a playful use of animal attributes and natural forms for faces and genitalia.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- 89.106
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · obtenue il y a 4 jours
- Image : Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Pendant ce temps, chez Max Ernst
La vie entière1970–1972
A retrospective from the Menil Collection tours Europe
A retrospective of 104 works from 1920–1968, drawn entirely from the Menil Collection, toured Europe from 1970 to 1972 and later the United States. The opening in Paris, augmented with 44 further pieces, took place on 2 April 1971, Ernst’s 80th birthday.
1975
A retrospective at the Guggenheim and the Grand Palais
In 1975 a large retrospective of Ernst’s work was mounted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris.
1976 · Distinction
Goslarer Kaiserring
1 avril 1976
Died
