Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington ( born April 6, 1917 in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England; † 25 May, 2011 Mexico City) was a Mexican surrealist painter, writer and playwright British origin. In 1938 she took part in the later legendary exhibition Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris.

Life

Leonora Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Lancashire. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer; she grew up in the mansion Crookhey Hall. Leonora Carrington studied at London's Chelsea School of Art and at the Academy of Amédée Ozenfant.

In 1937 she learned as an art student in Paris the 26 year older Max Ernst, with whom she lived until his arrest in 1940 after the occupation of France in World War II in Saint -Martin d'Ardèche in a remote farmhouse. She fled to Spain after his arrest, broke down on the way and came temporarily to a mental hospital. The traumatic time they processed in the report below. Max Ernst they met by chance in Lisbon again. He was accompanied by the rich American patron of the arts Peggy Guggenheim, who was his patron .. Carrington fled to the United States in 1942 and moved to Mexico, where she lived until her death. On the run, she learned in the Mexican Embassy in Lisbon Mexican writer Renato Leduc know. Both were married, were divorced shortly thereafter. In Mexico in 1946, she married the photographer Chiki Weisz Emerico, former partner of Robert Capa, with whom she had two children.

Work and significance

Her style encompasses several areas of dark mysticism, what shapes their surrealist style individually. The first influence came from Max Ernst. Through him, she also met Joan Miró and André Breton in Paris. Her first exhibitions were in Paris and Amsterdam, along with other surrealist painters. Her depictions of dreams, fantasies, ghosts, bogies, and conclaves are totally awesome and show the deep roots of Mexican culture and their legends, in a magical world. Most of their pictures are landscapes. Not only in painting showed her special style. Your arisen in Mexico in 1945 one-act play A flannel is a whimsical piece with surreal ( Dream ) shapes, while in their prose elements of the ( mostly self-deprecating broken ) can be found magical realism. In 1946, she participated with her version of the temptation of Saint Anthony on Bel -Ami Competition. In 2005 she was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Gold Medal of Fine Arts). To celebrate its 90th birthday in 2007 there was not a retrospective, but in Mexico City opened a sculpture exhibition with her ​​new works.

Prose

  • La Maison de la Peur. 1938th German: The house of fear. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-518-22427-1.
  • La dame ovale. 1939th With seven collages of Max Ernst. German: The oval lady. Magical stories. Qumran, Frankfurt, Paris, 1982, ISBN 3-88655-172-5.
  • The Debutante. 1939th short story.
  • El Mundo Magico de Los Mayas. 1964th With illustrations by Leonora Carrington.
  • The Hearing Trumpet. 1976th German: The ear trumpet. Translation by Tilman Spengler. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-458-04919-3.
  • En bas. 1940th autobiography. German: Below. Translation by Edmund Jacoby. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-01737-3.
  • Bride of the Wind - Bizarre stories, Nautilus Edition 2009 ISBN 978-3-89401-602-9.

Dramas

  • Une chemise de nuit de flanelle. 1951st German: A flannel nightgown. Qumran, Frankfurt am Main, New York, 1985, ISBN 3-88655 X -211.
  • The feast of the Lamb. 1940.
  • La invención del mole. In 1960.

Painting

  • Retrato de Max Ernst, Portrait, 1939
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony, oil on canvas, 1946
  • Baby Giant, Tempera on wood, approx 1947, 10 × 69.2 cm, Christie's Sale 2173 from 28 / 29th May 2009
  • Arca de Noé
  • El mundo de los mayas mágico
  • Temple of the world
  • El baño de los pájaros
  • Autorretrato en el albergue del caballo de Alba ( self-portrait ), image of Jacques Gelman Collection
  • Torre de la memoria
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