🔥 RARE Max ERNST Louisiana Museum Sweden DADA Art Exhibition Poster, 2009

Description: This is a never-before-seen on the secondary market and Very RARE Max ERNST Louisiana Museum Sweden DADA Art Exhibition Poster on Paper, for Max Ernst's 2009 retrospective exhibition in Sweden, sponsored and curated by the Louisiana Museum of Art, U.S. and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. A collaboration between these two institutions had never been attempted before, and this exhibition, titled Dream and Revolution, received wide acclaim in Scandinavia. This poster depicts Max Ernst alongside a beautiful dark-haired woman, surrounded by Ernst's eccentric large-scale Surrealist sculptures. Vivid hues of magenta, blue and yellow punctuate the black and white photographic image. This poster reads: "LOUISIANA" at the top left edge, along with: "MAX ERNST: Drom og Revolution 6/2 - 1/6 09," in the lower left corner. Approximately 26 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches (including frame.) Actual poster is approximately 24 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches. Good condition for over a decade of age and storage, with some minor scuffs along the edges of the poster, light speckles of debris under the glass at the top edge, and moderate scuffing and edge wear to the wooden frame (please see photos.) Acquired from an affluent estate collection in Los Angeles County, California. Priced to Sell. This poster was produced in a very limited quantity and is extremely scarce. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Max Ernst Born: 1891 - Cologne, GermanyDied: 1976 - Paris, FranceKnown for: Abstraction, surrealism, dada art Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) was active/lived in New York, Arizona / France, Germany. Max Ernst is known for Abstraction, surrealism, dada art. Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891, in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for deaf-mutes. From earliest childhood, Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images which became factors in his work throughout his life. He was a nervous impressionable boy, in constant friction with authority. During an illness, Ernst stared at the wood flooring and ended up discovering a new painting technique that he called "frottage." He took paper and pencil, laid them over the textured surface and scribbled away. Allied to this was Ernst's use of paint sponged and knifed on a canvas, with the images it suggested sharpened with a brush.Ernst went to the University of Bonn, studying philosophy and psychiatry at a time, 1909, when the subject was barely asknowledged as a discipline. After serving in the German artillery in World War I, he continued painting, and eventually reached Paris at a time when Dada was in full swing and Surrealism was about to be born. He first was involved in a menage-a-trois with French poet Paul Eluard and his wife Gala (Salvador Dali's future spouse). Ernst's first wife was the art historian Luise Strauss, who bore him a son, Jimmy. He then married high-strung Marie-Berthe Aurenche, who reveled in her status as an illegitimate descendant of Louis XVI. In the late 1930s, having left his wife and disassociated himself from the Surrealists, Ernst spent an idyllic interlude renovating an old farmhouse with his then-lover, painter Leonora Carrington. In 1939, he was held in a French prison camp on the false accusation that he was spying. He escaped, only to discover that Leonora Carrington had had an emotional breakdown. She had sold his house for a bottle of brandy, leaving him homeless.In 1940 he took refuge in New York and married the heiress and art patron Peggy Guggenheim a year later. After the war ended, he divorced Peggy, married artist Dorothea Tanning and built a house in Arizona. Life there resulted in a magnificent series of Arizona mountains, bleak and burning under their immobile suns.Ernst had a distinct prophetic faculty; immersed in the 20th century and lacking any nostalgia, he could feel what was coming. His predictive powers also had to do with art style itself. He made some small paintings by swinging a punctured can of paint on a string above a canvas flat on the floor; the resulting pattern of drips clearly anticipated Jackson Pollock. There was no chance technique - staining, rubbing, splashing, accidental manipulation, transfer blots - that Ernst did not pioneer. His was one of the most durable and fertile talents of our entire culture, a great enemy of the trivial, the bogus and the solemn.Eventually, Ernst migrated back to Europe and a small house in the south of France, where he did lithographs and engravings. He continued working long after the Dada and Surrealist movements were history. He was the master of invoked accident and controlled chance and even past eighty years old, was still inventing. Ernst was never a leader in any serious, ideological sense. Despite his technical ingenuity, he never settled down and fully exploited any of his means; to achieve any of these respectable goals would have tied him down. He died in Paris on April 1, 1976.Sources include:Time Magazine, March 5, 1973Robert Hughes in Time Magazine, April 12, 1976Compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California Biography from the Archives of askART Of German birth, Max Ernst became one of the leading modernist painters in Europe in the early and mid 20th century and was one of the leading figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements in Paris and New York. Many of his paintings reflect the terror that he experienced during World War II as well as the style of Surrealism that he adopted from French influences.In Berlin, he exhibited in 1913, and by 1919 had founded the Dada group in Cologne, Germany with Hans Arp. He lived in France from 1920 to 1940, and was drawn there to exhibit with the Surrealists led by Andre Breton. Ernst was in the first Surrealist exhibit in Paris, which was in 1925.In 1939, he was held in a French prison camp on the false accusation that he was spying. He escaped, only to discover that his lover Leonora Carrington had had an emotional breakdown and had sold his house for a bottle of brandy, leaving him homeless. Shortly after, in 1940, he successfully sought refuge in the United States and lived in New York City where Marcel Duchamp and Andre Breton had also migrated. They and Ernst founded the Surrealist magazine.He married artist Dorothea Tanning, and during 1943, the couple visited Sedona, where they stayed for three years. By the early 1950s, he and Tanning were in France, and in 1958, he became a French citizen.Source:Peter Hastings Falk (Editor), Who Was Who in American ArtBiography from Ketterer Kunst, MunichThe thematic group "La forêt" became part of Max Ernst's artistic creation in the mid 1920s. These pictures show the self-actualization and reification of matter and fracture in ever new ways. They include a wide range of aggregate states of the "Forest" theme, which, owing to the variety and independence of the applied techniques, differ strongly from one another. In one work he contrasts the multi-layer green-black structure with the bright pale blue of the sky and a large rising sun disc in bright yellow. It is like a clear flicker of hope and newly gained freedom. While forests in his paintings are usually dark and gloomy, this work is characterized by much more friendly colors, which is why it is unarguable that it occupies a special position in the group of the "La forêt" pictures.An interesting fact in this context is that Ernst had his first retrospective in Germany after end of the war in 1951. It was shown in his hometown Brühl. A year earlier Max Ernst had gone on his first longer trip to Germany and Paris after the war. [EH]Biography from AuctionataMax Ernst was born in 1891. The German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn.As a part of his studies, he worked on the art of mental illness and often visited museums. Ernst decided to devote himself entirely to painting in 1912, thanks to the friendship and encouragement of August Macke.Along with Johnannes Baargeld, and Hans Arp, he co-founded the DADA group in 1919. In 1922, he moved to Paris, where he joined the Surrealist circle. He became one of its most important exponents.During World War Second, he went in exile to America in 1941. In 1953, Max Ernst went back to France and became a French citizen. Ernst is known for his surreal, fantastic images with enigmatic figures. About this Exhibition Poster: Max Ernst : dream and revolution : [exhibition, Moderna museet, Stockholm, September 20, 2008 - January 11, 2009, Louisiana museum of modern art, Humlebaek, February 7 - June 1, 2009] MAX ERNST"Dream and Revolution "6/2 2009 - 1/6 2009No artist in the 20th century waged as revolutionary and innovative an assault on the traditional views of the picture as the Surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976). In the spring of 2009, the Louisiana Museum will be showing the first major exhibition of Max Ernst in Denmark, presenting a retrospective view of the most important artistic stages in Ernst’s work: the Dada years in Cologne, his Surrealist period in France up to 1941, the period in the USA, Max Ernst’s return to Europe and the years in France until the artist’s death in 1976.The exhibition is being mounted in collaboration with Moderna Museet in Stockholm, with participation from the world’s leading authority on Max Ernst, Professor Werner Spies, former director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Max ErnstLOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, HUMLEBAEK5/2/2009 Dream and Revolution. He explored all areas of the artistic landscape and during his journey through the subconscious recorded his enigmatic and poetic visions of the great interconnections of the universe and nature. 200 works in the exhibition, ranging from painting, collage, drawing and sculpture to the special Ernst techniques frottage and decalcomania. The retrospective show the most important artistic stages in his work: from the Dada period in 1891-1922 until the years before artist's death in 1976. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Moderna Museet in Stockholm are bringing the world-famous Surrealist Max Ernst to Scandinavia with a large-scale retrospective exhibition of 200 works. From 6 February 2009 the Danish public can for the first time make the acquaintance of one of the true greats of the twentieth century. More than any one in his generation of innovative artists, Max Ernst – Dadaist, Surrealist, romantic and fantasizing genius – was on the side of experiment. His visual worlds shocked the age and offer new, strange insights into the universe of art.Max Ernst (1891-1976) was of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century – an artist who throughout his career changed style and attitude, and who constantly questioned and reflected on what art is and can be. No other artist of his time was as revolutionary and innovative as Max Ernst in the assault on the traditional views of visual art. Behind his work lies a permanent rebellion against all that has already been achieved and formulated.Viewed in the perspective of today Max Ernst is more relevant than ever. It is the ambition of the exhibition to show how his pictorial world lies very close to what younger generations today are experiencing in the fantasy genre and with the latest possibilities of computer technology.His work was pioneering for a great variety of modern art's image-creating forms and techniques – and his visionary pictorial universe, based on unexpected juxtapositions of visual elements and symbols, has been interpreted again and again. Max Ernst explored all areas of the artistic landscape: painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture and collage, and during his journey through the subconscious recorded his enigmatic and poetic visions of the great interconnections of the universe and nature.Louisiana's exhibition is the first major presentation of Max Ernst in Denmark, and with its retrospective approach will show the most important artistic stages in Max Ernst's work: the Dada years in Cologne in 1891-1922, his Surrealist period in France until 1941, the period in the USA, 1941-1953, as well as Max Ernst's return to Europe and the years in France up to the artist's death in 1976. The exhibition presents the inexplicable and dream-like – but also demonstrates the artist's lively irony and humour in the approx. 200 works in the exhibition, ranging from painting, collage, drawing and sculpture to the special Max Ernst techniques frottage and decalcomania.The exhibition Max Ernst. Dream and Revolution has been mounted as a collaboration between Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, both of which have their 50th anniversary in 2008.The curatorial team consists of the German art historian and leading Max Ernst authority Werner Spies, curator Iris Müller-Westermann, Moderna Museet, and curator Kirsten Degel, Louisiana. Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtGl. Strandvej 13 - Humlebaek MAX ERNSTDREAM AND REVOLUTION20.9 2008 – 11.1 2009STOCKHOLMMax Ernst is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and a leading surrealist, Max Ernst continues to fascinate and inspire to this day.We perceive that a new generation is attracted to his multifaceted œuvre in an era that holds many parallel realities – not least his petrified and imaginary landscapes that have many similarities with computer games and fantasy literature.Max Ernst. Dream and Revolution will comprise some 175 works; paintings, collages, works on paper and sculptures. The term dream in the title refers to the importance of dreams and the unconscious in his works, while revolution stands for the way he challenges conventions and expectations in his art.Max Ernst is one of the most influential and important 20th century artists, an artist who changed his approach and style constantly throughout his artistic career and reflected on what art could be after his experiences in the First and Second World Wars.The pervading artistic strategy in Max Ernst’s œuvre is to recycle visual material and combine it into new imageries. The collage became his constant method. The term “dream” in the exhibition title refers to the importance of dreams and the unconscious in his works, while “revolution” stands for the way he challenges conventions and expectations in his art.It is now 40 years since Moderna Museet featured a major survey of Max Ernst. Today, his work is more relevant than ever. We perceive that a new generation is attracted to his multifaceted œuvre in an era that holds many parallel realities – not least his petrified and imaginary landscapes that have many similarities with computer games and fantasy literature. Curators:Iris Müller-Westermann, curator of international art, Moderna MuseetWerner Spies, art historian and Max Ernst expertKirsten Degel, curator, Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtExhibition architecture and catalogue design: chezweitz & roseapple, Berlin.The exhibition is produced jointly with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, to which it will proceed in spring 2009. In conjunction with the exhibition an extensively illustrated catalogue will be published in Swedish, English and German, by Hatje Cantz Verlag.

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