Max Ernst
| Max Ernst was a German artist used modernist art scene (Dada and Surrealist movement of André Breton, based on the theories of jewish psychologist Sigmund Freud). He married jewish art historian Luise Strauss and Peggy Guggenheim (Ashkenazi jewish elite family Guggenheim) who also had a relationship with surrealist Yves Tanguy. He used the frottage technique and collage to create images. The cutting up technique was also used by the Beatniks. He worked with Johannes Baargeld (Die Aktion, Socialist Party of Germany). |
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Peggy Guggenheim visited Marcel Duchamp in the Montparnasse scene in Paris. She pushed the lesbian agenda with Nathalie Barney (salon in Paris with André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Nancy Cunard, Rainer Maria Rilke).
In 1926 he worked with Juan Miro (studio with André Masson) for the Ballets Russes production Romeo and Juliet.
He appeared in L'Age d'Or of Luis Bunuel, written by Salvador Dali, with occultist Valentine Boué, married to his friend Roland Penrose (Quaker family, related to Roger Penrose). He was photographed by Man Ray.
In 1937 his work was used in the Entartete Kunst exhibition in Munich, a publicity stunt of Joseph Goebbels with works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Marc Chagall, George Grosz, Piet Mondrian, Raoul Hausmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoshka, Rudolf Bauer, James Ensor, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso.
Peggy Guggenheim helped Ernst emigrate to the US, transferred by Varian Fry like surrealists Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss, André Masson, Marcel Duchamps, Jacqueline Lamba, Benjamin Péret, Jacques Hérold, and established a gallery in London, next to the gallery of Roland Penrose.
His son Jimmy Ernst was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and married Edith Brody who worked for Warner Bros (jewish mason Jack Warner).
He married Dorothea Tanning, a friend of Julien Levy and lived with her in Sedona Arizona (cult center of the New Age).
He was promoted by the Venice Biennale and MoMa.
In the 60's Breton became a member of the New Left (the Left Wing Church) in France with jesuit JP Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
born 1891.
died 1976.
Ernst in pop culture
2023 Transatlantic Netflix Alexander Fehling (Inglourious Basterds) as Ernst Michael Cory Smith as Fry Moritz Bleibtrue as Walter Benjamin Jodhi Mai as Peggy Guggenheim Alexa Karolinska as Hannah Arendt Anna Winger (The NY Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)