Picture "Birth of a Galaxy" (1969), framed
Picture "Birth of a Galaxy" (1969), framed
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limited, 1,000 copies | halftone process on handmade paper | framed | glazed | size 69.5 x 56.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Birth of a Galaxy" (1969), framed
Original: 1969, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection.
Edition in 5-colour amplitude-modulated halftone process, which accurately reproduces intermediate tones, on 260g Rives handmade paper. Limited to 1,000 copies. Motif size 67 x 53 cm (h/w). © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019. Framed in silver-coloured solid wood frame, glazed. Size 69.5 x 56.5 cm (h/w).
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About Max Ernst
1891-1976
Max Ernst was one of the initiators of the Surrealist movement and also remained one of its most important and versatile representatives. Alongside Picasso, he is considered the artist who had the most lasting influence on the development of modernism.
At the sight of a heavily grained, washed-out floor, he had his first spontaneous visions of birds, landscapes, masks, and figures. Max Ernst fixed these visions in his paintings. He created bird people and mask wearers, rational worlds of form that placed him in the ranks of the great Surrealists.
His paintings - if still available at all - are auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's for millions and are in the most important collections in the world.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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A movement in contemporary art that developed in Europe and America. Following the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, it seeks the actual reality in the subconscious. Surrealism exploits dreams and intoxicating experiences, as well as hypnotic states as a source of artistic inspiration.
Famous artists and sculptors of this movement are Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró and René Magritte.