Ray Man

(1890-1976)

Man Ray is considered a representative of Dadaism and Surrealism. He was born in Philadelphia in 1890. Man Ray worked as a painter, object artist, photographer and film director. His art assemblages deal with questions about the unconscious, the apparent and the mythical. In the conception of his experiments with different materials and techniques, Ray deals with what is behind what is represented or not represented. He has his first solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York. He and Marcel Duchamp found the DADA group in New York. In 1921 Ray moved to Paris, where he worked in the Montparnasse area with artists such as Dalí, Ernst, Matisse, Miró, Mondrian and Tanguy. In 1922 there was a split between Dadaists and Surrealists in Paris. Man Ray joins the co-founders of surrealism. National Socialism, which also had its effects in Paris in the late 1930s, prompted the Jewish artist to decide to leave the country. After a big appearance in the Parisian gallery Beaux-Arts by Georges Wildenstein in the exhibition „Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme“ he flees to New York via Spain and Portugal. After the Second World War, he brought the art he had left in Paris to the USA. Since he could not enjoy the success and prestige in America that had been shown to him in Paris, he returned to Paris in 1951. In 1958 the artist took part in the exhibition „Dada. Documents of a Movement“ at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf and in the large Dada exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His first major retrospective was shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. Man Ray died in Paris in 1976, leaving behind the „Man Ray Trust“ founded by his widow.

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