1. DADA in Germany (Cologne - Köln) Max Ernst and Magic DADA

2. 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”.

3. 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.

4.  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 Catalogue, Max Ernst Exhibition, 1953

6. 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

7. De Chirico 1988-1978 (mystical painting) 1914 1916 Song of love The Herald

8. 1913 Mystery and nostalgy of the street Ariane 1914

9. 1915 The enigma of the night 1913 Delights of the poet

10. Max Ernst

11. 1921 Celebes 1923 Ubu Imperator

12. Max Ernst on top of Sky Mountain Ranch in Sedona (AZ) Foundation of an artist colony Little Machines Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person (Von minimax dadamax selbst konstruiertes maschinchen), 1919–20