Tag: Germany

La Lune en bouteille (1955)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London After an eight-year exile in the USA, where he settled in Arizona, Ernst began to visit Europe in 1949. He…

Dadaville (c.1924)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Dadaville c.1924 Painted plaster and cork on canvas, 68 × 56 x 6.3 cm Tate Britain, London After the destruction of the First World War, a group of European artists came together to create a new way of…

Gala Éluard (1924)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Gala Éluard 1924 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This evocative portrait reveals the deeply intertwined personal and artistic lives of members of the Surrealist circle and depicts the movement’s fascination…

Max Ernst

(1891–1976) Maximilian Ethelbert Ernst The artist’s works: Dada Gauguin 1920 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Celebes 1921 Tate Britain, London Les Hommes n’en sauront rien 1923 Tate Britain, London Pietà ou La révolution la nuit 1923 Tate Britain, London Dadaville c.1924 Tate Britain, London Gala…

Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Burin engraving, 24.6 x 19 cm Petit Palais, Paris Dürer was a painter, drawer, art theoretician and a wood and copper engraver, and one of the greatest creative talents in Western Art.…

L’Âge d’airain (1875-1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) 1875–1876 Bronze, 180 x 66 x 60 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen Compare: Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Camille (1866)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille 1866 Oil on canvas, 231 x 151 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)

Psiche (1793-1794)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Psiche (Psyche) 1793–1794 Marble, 150 x 50 x 60 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen Taking as his inspiration the Late Antique text Asinus aureus (The Golden Ass) by Apuleius, Antonio Canova, the outstanding sculptor of Italian Neoclassicism, interpreted the…