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ERNST Max
(1891-1976)
"Above, in the midst of the night, glides the day, invisible bird."
Max ERNST, a few dates

1891 born on April 2nd 1891 in Brühl (Germany)
1909
1913 meets Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and settles in Paris and joins the Montparnasse workshop
1914
1919
1925 invents the "rub" technique and elaborates later with Joan Miro the "scrape"technique
1927
1930
1934 begins sculpture, frequenting Alberto Giacometti
1941 takes refuge in New York and helps to the development of Abstract Expressionism with Marc Chagall and Marcel Duchamp
1946 marries the painter Dorothea Tanning in California on October 1946
1951
1953 settles in Paris
success at the Venice Biennial in 1954
1954
1975 retrospective at the Salomon museum R Guggenheim in New York
the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais publish a complete catalog of his works
1976 died on April 1st 1976 in Paris