Max Ernst

Standard Name: Ernst, Max

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Cultural formation Leonora Carrington
Rejecting her parents' conventional expectations for her to marry and settle into a quiet domestic life, LC left England at the age of twenty.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Her romantic experiences included a relationship with Max Ernst and...
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
LC met the (married) Surrealist artist Max Ernst at a dinner party in Highgate Hill, London. They began an intense and long-term romantic relationship that would strongly influence their individual and collaborative creative work.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
47
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
LC and Max Ernst spent three weeks in Cornwall, staying at Lambe Creek House with a large group of fellow artists: Roland Penrose , Lee Miller , Paul and Nusch Éluard , Man Ray ...
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
During this period in Lisbon LC also reunited with Max Ernst , who had been freed from internment. He was also en route to America thanks to the art collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim ...
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
LC 's relationship with Max Ernst continued in New York though both were married to other people, but she was dissatisfied with it, believing that her independence as a practitioner was limited by his fame...
Leisure and Society Leonora Carrington
LC 's awareness of and growing experimentation with modern art was nurtured by her mother despite their different beliefs about how LC should shape her life. Maurie Carrington gave Leonora a copy of Surrealism (1936)...
Occupation Leonora Carrington
LC participated in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, which opened on this day at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. The show was curated by Marcel Duchamp and included pieces by Salvador Dali ,...
Occupation Leonora Carrington
In Paris LC created her seminal painting The Inn of the Dawn Horse, also known as Self-Portrait and (in 2017) held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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She later...
Occupation Leonora Carrington
She appears in the photo not only with her lover Max Ernst and friend André Breton , but also her former teacher Amédée Ozenfant . Berenice Abbott and Peggy Guggenheim are the only other women...
politics Leonora Carrington
The security of LC 's life with Max Ernst ended when, shortly after France declared war on Germany, Ernst was interned, first at the camp at Largentière and then at another near Aix-en-Provence.
Aberth, Susan L. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art. Lund Humphries, 2010.
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Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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politics Leonora Carrington
The outbreak of World War II posed specific dangers for LC and Ernst because of the latter's nationality and productivity. Ernst's work was condemned by the German goverment in July 1937 when it was included...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
The text is partly collaborative, containing a short preface and four illustrations by LC 's lover Max Ernst . Ernst's preface depicts two characters closely identified by themselves and their peers, in their life and...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
Like LC 's first book, this was written in French and features illustrations by Max Ernst : here, Ernst contributed seven collage illustrations. Editions G.L.M. published the first edition in Paris, with a print...
Residence Leonora Carrington
LC left her home in England permanently and moved to Paris with Max Ernst : she took a boat train from London and arrived at the Gare du Nord.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Residence Leonora Carrington
LC and Max Ernst purchased Les Alliberts, a farmhouse in the village of Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, Provence. The couple lived in the house for a short but productive period: LC called it a kind of paradise...

Timeline

15 June 1916: A small international group of artists at...

Building item

15 June 1916

A small international group of artists at Zurich in Switzerland (where many of them were sitting out the First World War) began this summer to call their indignant, iconoclastic work Dada or Dadaism. On this...

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