Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artistic creation is the result of playing like a child, ' says Painter-Sculptor Max Ernst. Ernst himself has been playing all his life, and the result is some of the most imaginative and ingenious work done in this century. Very early he began his "excursions in the world of marvels, chimeras, phantoms, poets, monsters, philo. ">phers, birds, women, lunatics, magi, trees, eroticism, stones, insects, mountains, poisons, mathematics and so forth." As could be seen at his big (240 works) retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week (see color}, the excursions have been strange...
...Ernst is a spry, bright-eyed artist whose most engaging trait is that he has never lost his sense of wonder or his sense of humor. The most routine experiences during his childhood in Briil, Germany-a walk into a forest, a case of measles, the death of a pet bird-produced visions that never left him. Somehow the most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil...
Everyone Is President. The Dada movement of the late 'teens and '203 suited his mood perfectly. Part of its creed, Ernst recalls, was that "everyone who declares to be a Dada isn't; and everyone who is a Dada is president of the movement." But what began as a serious if wild attempt to break new ground tended to deteriorate into mere sensationalism, and Ernst moved on to surrealism. Though he formally broke with the movement in 1938 in protest against the highhandedness of its self-appointed leader, Poet Andre Breton, he has remained a surrealist...
...West Germany is officially opposed to the exodus, partly because West Germany has a surplus of doctors, partly because the government believes that if the spark of liberty is to be kept alive in East Germany, some intellectual leaders must remain. Minister for All-German Affairs Ernst Lemmer says carefully: "We wish these represent atives of the German intelligentsia would stick it out and lend their fellow citizens a moral and spiritual helping hand...
...years ago Thompson offered his collection to the city. But he insisted that it be housed in a special museum. Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years. He went then to a 40-year-old Basel art dealer named Ernst Beyeler, with whom he had long been trading pictures. Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built. Last week most of the other prizes, once offered to Pittsburgh, went...