DADA in Germany (Cologne - K

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DADA in Germany (Cologne - Köln)

• Max Ernst
• and Magic DADA

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Max Ernst 1891, Bruhl (Germany) - 1976, Paris
(France). He had his first art exhibit
(expressionism) in 1912 in Cologne. He then
traveled to Paris where he met the French
artistic and literary vanguard Picasso,
Delaunay, Apollinaire, Braque and Arp. He invited
Arp to come to Cologne in 1914 and Arp urged him
to join him in Zurich. He refused and served in
the German army where he was wounded until 1918
when he came back to Cologne. Through Arp he
learned about Dada and went to Berlin to meet the
Dada group. He was not impressed by their strong
political positions but was seduced by the
freedom of their esthetics and their
intellectual activism and artistic public
provocation. Dadamax.
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In 1919 he and Baargeld created the radical
newspaper Der Ventilator (suppressed by the
English occupying army). They created Bulletin D
and then Die Schamade. This is when he went
beyond the papiers collés by Braque and Picasso
and created what will be called collage (a form
of assemblage). His exploration of the collage
is at the origin of some of his most famous Dada
creations that were realized by mixing painting
and collage. Other realizations are very close to
the Picabia technical drawings of the same period.
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• The papiers collés of Braque and Picasso are
  simple plastic solutions in which cutout elements
  imitating a real material (wood, marble,
  newspaper) play the part of counterpoint to the
  lines or shapes which the artist has invented or
  interpreted. In his collages, on the contrary,
  Max Ernst is far from being principally concerned
  with plastic construction. With a single stroke
  he plunges us into the drama by making elements
  of our known world confront each other in an
  irritating manner, thus violating the accepted
  canons of thought, logic and morality. . . .
• Catalogue, Max Ernst
  Exhibition , 1953

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Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) born in Volos,
Greece, to Italian parents, studied art in
Athens, Munich and Paris before moving back to
Italy where, together with Carlo Carrà, he
created the Pittura Metafisica (metaphysical
painting).The Pittura Metafisica was centered
around stark views of semi-abstract figures, a
deserted collection of distorted mannequins and
solitary easels made even more menacing by harsh
light effects and oblique perspective. The new
style was supposed to overcome the limitations of
Cubism, which de Chirico had experienced in
Paris, where he had met Picasso. Among de
Chirico's best works from the period are The
Nostalgia of the Infinite and Mystery and
Melancholy of a Street .The movement, however,
was short-lived, coming to an end in the early
1920s, when de Chirico and Carrà has a conflict
over who had invented the concept of metaphysical
painting.
Homage to the Infinite 1911 1913
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De Chirico 1988-1978 (mystical painting)
1916
The Herald
Song of love
1914
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Ariane 1914
1913 Mystery and nostalgy of the street
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1913 Delights of the poet
1915 The enigma of the night
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Max Ernst
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1921 Celebes
1923 Ubu Imperator
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Little Machines Constructed by Minimax Dadamax
in Person (Von minimax dadamax selbst
konstruiertes maschinchen), 191920
Max Ernst on top of Sky Mountain Ranch in
Sedona (AZ) Foundation of an artist colony