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Max Ernst

[German-born French Dadaist/Surrealist Painter, 1891-1976]

• Relationships: Ernst married four times: to Luise Straus, Marie-Berthe Aurenche, art collector Peggy Guggenheim, and Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning.
Ernst's son is the abstract painter Jimmy Ernst.
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I was no longer able to feel at ease in the somewhat puritanical and disembodied intellectualism of the more orthodox Surrealists. I feel, at heart, a far greater affinity with the German Romantics than many of the French Surrealists...
- Max Ernst, 1962, quoted by Edouard Roditi

 


 
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Original works by Max Ernst available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
6 works by Max Ernst online

Max Ernst at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Max Ernst

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
6 works online

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl, Germany

Max Ernst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Max Ernst: A Retrospective

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
The Barbarians, 1937

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
22 works by Max Ernst online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Capricorn, 1948 (Zoom)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
5 works online

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The Kiss, 1927

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Zoomorphic Couple, 1933

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
La danseuse, 1950

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Un peu malade de cheval

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indiana State University Art Collection   NEW!

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)  

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)  

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "E"

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
L'oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence), 1943-44

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)   NEW!  
Monument aux oiseaux

Museo Ca' Pesaro, Venice (in Italian)  
The Weatherman, 1951

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Le couple, 1923

Museum Jean Tinguely, Switzerland
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie"

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
21 works by Ernst

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Sun and Forest, 1928

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Petrified Forest, 1927

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Untitled etching and aquatint

Norwich Museums, England

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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5 works by Max Ernst online

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid   NEW!

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
3 works online

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Long Live Love or Pays charmant, 1923

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Europe after the Rain

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Ernst in the Art Renewal Center

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Hat Makes the Man

Max Ernst at CGFA

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Boston College Fine Arts Department

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Capricorn

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Under the Bridge of Paris

Nicola Randone's Grandi Artisti
Quite a few works online

Olga's Gallery

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Max Ernst Museum Brühl (6 works online)

s u r r e a l i s t . c o m
The hat makes the man

The Art of Roberto Matta
For the Max Ernst gallery, scroll down towards the bottom of the "Galleries" frame

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Experiment in Faces, concrete

The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Ernst
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Deutsche Bank Artmag

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Pieta or Revolution by Night, 1923

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Painter Max Ernst Brought Dark Grasp To European Terror

Time Magazine
"The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max", 1991 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Max Ernst: The Compleat Experimenter", 1976 article by Robert Hughes

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation

  
 
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