Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
The Beautiful German Woman
Alternate Title:
La belle allemande
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
Max Ernst (German sculptor, 1891-1976)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DE00498
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1934-1935 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
plaster; iron wire
Technique:
casting (process); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
63 cm (height, without base) x 27 cm (width) x 20 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction
Description:
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.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-ERNST-SRS-TBGW-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

The Beautiful German Woman