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Stamp by Max Ernst
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Max Ernst
Peintre, sculpteur, graveur et poète, Max Ernst est mort à Paris le 1er avril 1976 à la veille de son quatre-vingt-cinquième anniversaire. Il repose au cimetière du Père Lachaise (Colombarium 2012, Paris). En son hommage, nous associons à une fleur de son imagination, un oeillet, comme un oeil toujours ouvert.
"Mes yeux ont vu alors des têtes humaines, divers animaux, une bataille qui finit en baiser, des rochers, la mer et la pluie, des tremblements de terre, le sphinx dans son écurie." - Max Ernst
". . . / La forêt est là et me regarde et m'inquiète et m'attire comme le masque d'une momie / Je regarde / Pas l'ombre d'un oeil." - Blaise Cendrars
"L'art est un jeu d'enfant." - Max Ernst
"Il faut vivre avec ses toiles. Non les conserver mais les mettre à l'épreuve du temps." - Max Ernst
"Le Surréalisme repose sur la croyance à la réalité supérieure de certaines formes d'association, négligées jusqu'à lui, à la toute puissance du rêve, au jeu désintéressé de la pensée." - André Breton
". . . / A la lueur de la jeunesse / Des lampes allumées très tard / La première montre ses seins que tuent des insectes rouges." - Paul Eluard
Notes of biography
Maximilien Ernst was born in Brühl (Germany) in 1891; he studied in Bonn: philosophy, history of art and psychiatry. He began drawing very early. After the war, Ernst adhered to the Dada movement in Cologne.
After a first personal exhibition organized in 1921, he settled down in Paris (1922). Two years later, he was one of the cosignatories for the "Manifesto of the surrealism” and he participated in all the movement exhibitions. In 1933, his name appeared on the outlaws list of the Nazi regime. In 1940, Max Ernst was considered as a spy of The Reich and, as such, was interned in France in a detention centre. He succeeded his exile to the United States in 1941 and married Peggy Guggenheim; a gallery owner and collector (they parted next year).
In 1946, he married the artist Dorothy Tanning, got back to France in 1953 and obtained the French nationality 5 years later. Very early, Ernst created “collective tickings” which prefigured the famous exquisite corpses. In 1920, he illustrated Eluard’s poems and the future surrealist’s ones. He used automatism and claimed a surrealist universe. In this decade, followed the various subjects of the "hallucinations" which remained recurring in his work. Did he discover these phenomena during his infant diseases?
Follower of the experiment, he worked out new techniques (rubbing), made scratching, stuck papers, paintings with decals. It is in the United States where Ernst finalized technique of the “dripping“ (sticking). There, he was interested in the art of the Amerindians, integrating these worlds of mysterious powers into his works.
Ernst, who began painting without boss, who admired so much Van Gogh, Goya, Gauguin and Kandinsky, died in Paris in 1976. Ernst, an artist who followed his own road and who, almost by chance, met the consecration there.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L'oeuvre sculpté 1913-1961 », A. Bosquet, Ed. Le point cardinal, 1961 *« Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch », Verner Spies, M. Du Mont Schauberg Verlag, 1974Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Max Ernst », S. Alexandrian, coll. La Septième Face du dé, Ed. Filipacchi, 197
- « Max Ernst, rétrospective », W. Spies, Gal. nationales du Grand Palais, 1975
- « Max Ernst, écrits et oeuvre gravé », I. R. C. avec l'étranger, Stuttgart, 1980
- « Max Ernst », L. Derenthal, J. Pech, coll. Diffusion N.E.F, Ed. Casterman, 1992
- « Max Ernst », MNAM, Paris, 1998
- « Max Ernst », cat. d'expo., Ed. Galerie Malingu, Paris, 2003
- « Max Ernst, vie et œuvre », W. Spies, Ed. Centre Pompidou, 2007
- « M. Ernst, l'imagier des poètes », J. Drost & autres, PU Paris-Sorbonne, 2008
- « Une semaine de bonté », coll., cat. d'expo., Musée d'Orsay, Ed. Gallimard, 2009
- « Max Ernst rétrospective », collectif, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2013
To read from the artist :
- « Une semaine de bonté », J.-J. Pauvert, 1963
- « Ecritures », Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1970
Website :
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Stamp by Max Ernst
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsArtist's handwritten document
Document in reproduction / This document is not for sale
Listen
Watch
A tribute to Max Ernst
Peintre, sculpteur, graveur et poète, Max Ernst est mort à Paris le 1er avril 1976 à la veille de son quatre-vingt-cinquième anniversaire. Il repose au cimetière du Père Lachaise (Colombarium 2012, Paris). En son hommage, nous associons à une fleur de son imagination, un oeillet, comme un oeil toujours ouvert.
"Mes yeux ont vu alors des têtes humaines, divers animaux, une bataille qui finit en baiser, des rochers, la mer et la pluie, des tremblements de terre, le sphinx dans son écurie." - Max Ernst
". . . / La forêt est là et me regarde et m'inquiète et m'attire comme le masque d'une momie / Je regarde / Pas l'ombre d'un oeil." - Blaise Cendrars
"L'art est un jeu d'enfant." - Max Ernst
"Il faut vivre avec ses toiles. Non les conserver mais les mettre à l'épreuve du temps." - Max Ernst
"Le Surréalisme repose sur la croyance à la réalité supérieure de certaines formes d'association, négligées jusqu'à lui, à la toute puissance du rêve, au jeu désintéressé de la pensée." - André Breton
". . . / A la lueur de la jeunesse / Des lampes allumées très tard / La première montre ses seins que tuent des insectes rouges." - Paul Eluard
Art movements
+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
+ ATELIER 17 / 1927-1965 / Anton Prinner, Mauricio Lasansky, Jacques Lipchitz, Mark Rothko, etc.
All art movements
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.
These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier