3866 - Max Ernst, portfolio ‘histoire naturelle’

Max Ernst, portfolio ‘histoire naturelle’ 34 prints based on the artist’s drawings, two double sheets with text, housed in a linen-covered slipcase, published by Harry N. Abrahams, Inc., New York 1972, first edition 1926, numbered “A 282”, sheets showing slight signs of ageing, case with slight signs of wear, sheet dimensions approx. 50 x 32 cm. Artist information: real name Maximilian Maria Ernst, German painter, stage designer, graphic artist, draughtsman, writer and sculptor (1891, Brühl, Rhineland - 1976, Paris), 1910-14: studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn; 1911: became friends with August Macke, in 1912, he turned to painting as a self-taught artist; in 1913, he took part in his first exhibition at the Rhenish Expressionists’ exhibition in Bonn and in the ‘First German Autumn Salon’ at Herwarth Walden’s ‘Der Sturm’ gallery in Berlin, 1919: founding member of the Cologne Dada group alongside Johannes Baargeld and Hans Arp; member of the artists’ association “Das Junge Rheinland”, 1922: moved to Paris, where he joined the Surrealists led by André Breton; 1923: exhibited at the “Salon des Indépendants”, In 1925, he set up his first studio in Paris; from 1933 to 1945, he was defamed in Germany as ‘degenerate’; from 1939, as a German national in France, he was intermittently interned, 1941: Fled to the USA with his future wife, Peggy Guggenheim; 1946: Moved to Sedona in the Arizona desert; 1948: Granted American citizenship; 1953: Returned to France; 1954: featured at the Venice Biennale; from 1955: country house in Huismes; 1958: granted French citizenship; from 1964: spent regular periods in the south of France; Source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.