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Max ERNST  -  1891-1976      

German-French painter and printmaker. In 1919 he founded a Dada group with other German artists in Cologne. In 1925 he contributed to the first Surrealist exhibition. Persecuted by the German Nazis, he could escape to New York in 1941. In 1949 he returned to France. In 1954 he received the main prize at the Venice Biennale for painting.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs