Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: The Beautiful German Woman
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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The Beautiful German Woman
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Alternate Title:
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La belle allemande
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Image View:
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Overall view from left side
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Creator:
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Max Ernst (German sculptor, 1891-1976)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DE00498
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Location Note:
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52 Santa Isabel Street
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GPS:
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+40.408889-3.694444
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Date:
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1934-1935 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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plaster; iron wire
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Technique:
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casting (process); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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63 cm (height, without base) x 27 cm (width) x 20 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction
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Description:
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As a member of the dadaist ranks, Max Ernst began his assemblage-based sculpture using wood and wire, as a response to the crisis in painting that Dadá addressed. Years later, he became fully involved in the surrealist group and began a series of plaster casts, done between 1934 and 1935, which indicated a firmer commitment to sculpting. This work with its totemic and semi-anthropomorphic form indicates a dialogue with both Alberto Giacometti and African sculpture, from a perspective far removed from that which had inspired the cubist sculptors. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-ERNST-SRS-TBGW-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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