ERNSTERNSTERNST. Three Generations, One Family.

ERNSTERNSTERNST. Three Generations, One Family.

Grüneburgweg 123 Frankfurt am Main, 60323, Germany Saturday, November 25, 2023–Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 25, 2023


la grande tortue by max ernst

Max Ernst

La grande tortue, 1944

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sedona mask by max ernst

Max Ernst

Sedona Mask, 1948

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sedona head by max ernst

Max Ernst

Sedona Head, 1948

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l'attente et le succès by max ernst

Max Ernst

L'attente et le succès, 1923

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untitled (doux souvenir) by max ernst

Max Ernst

Untitled (Doux Souvenir), 1958

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untitled by max ernst

Max Ernst

Untitled, 1949

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la forêt by max ernst

Max Ernst

La Forêt, 1925

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nocturne by max ernst

Max Ernst

Nocturne, 1967

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untitled by jimmy ernst

Jimmy Ernst

Untitled, 1962

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untitled by jimmy ernst

Jimmy Ernst

Untitled, 1975

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orange & black by jimmy ernst

Jimmy Ernst

Orange & Black, 1959

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untitled (te11) by jimmy ernst

Jimmy Ernst

Untitled (TE11), 1974

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Max Ernst (1891-1976) is one of the leading figures of 20th-century art and is deeply rooted in DIE  GALERIE's programme. Uniting all the different development stages of  Dadaism and Surrealism, he left behind an oeuvre rich in contradictions and leaps, into which his interest in psychoanalysis and cosmology found its way just as much as ethnology or the myths of humanity. His talent,  passion, and creativity also went down to his successors: Jimmy Ernst (1920-1984),  son from his first marriage, had already emigrated to the USA before his father. He had already learned to paint autodidactically before, and from the 1940s he established himself as an abstract painter and significant member of the young American Abstract Expressionists. With the work of Jimmy Ernst's daughter Amy Ernst (*1953),  the threads of art history merge into those of contemporary art. After studying stage design, Amy Ernst dedicated herself to printmaking and developed her unmistakable artistic concept in compositions combining collage and frottage techniques with photographic methods, thus creating highly associative works between landscape and figure.   With the exhibition ERNSTERNSTERNST. THREE GENERATIONS, ONE FAMILY,  DIE GALERIE does not seek to portray Max Ernst's dependence or influence on his closest circle but rather focuses on the work of the single artists in their individual confrontation with their own biography and ideas.