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ERNST Max
(1891-1976)
"Above, in the midst of the night, glides the day, invisible bird."
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| 1891 |
born on April 2nd 1891 in Brühl (Germany) |
| 1909 |
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| 1913 |
meets Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and settles in Paris and joins the Montparnasse workshop |
| 1914 |
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| 1919 |
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| 1925 |
invents the "rub" technique and elaborates later with Joan Miro the "scrape"technique |
| 1927 |
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| 1930 |
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| 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 |
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| 1953 |
settles in Paris
success at the Venice Biennial in 1954 |
| 1954 |
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| 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 |
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