Leonora Carrington
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| Leonora Carrington – The Magical World of the Mayas,1964 |
Leonora Carrington, 1917-2011, britisk maler og forfatter. Leonora Carrington mødte i London 1937 Max Ernst og flyttede med ham til Frankrig, hvor hun skrev novellerne The House of Fear og The Oval Lady (1939), illustreret af Max Ernst.
Under senere ophold i den surrealistiske eksilgruppe i New York bidrog hun til tidsskrifterne View og VVV.
Leonora Carrington bosatte sig 1942 i Mexico, hvor hun bl.a. har udført murmaleriet The Magic Life of the Mayans (1963) på Nationalmuseet for Antropologi i Mexico City.
Meeting Max Ernst
In 1937, Carrington met the German painter Max Ernst, another key figure of the Surrealist movement. The two of them fell in love and formed a strong bond, beyond typical romantic relationship. They lived and worked together in Paris and supported each other’s artistic ideas and vision. They also created a couple of collaborative pieces they used to embellish their home. Unfortunately, Max Ernst was arrested by the Nazis while he was living in France; consequently, Carrington had to move to Spain. Due to her anxiety and fears related to Ernst’s situation with the Nazis, she suffered a mental breakdown and ended up being institutionalized. Her experience in the mental hospital catalyzed her career as a writer and many of her written and visual works were produced after she was released from the hospital, such as her novel Down Below from 1972 and her paintings Portrait of Dr. Morales from 1940 and Map of Down Below from 1943. When it comes to Max Ernst and his career, he was discharged from the Nazi prison thanks to the help of Paul Éluard and other friends. But soon after the Nazis invaded France, he was arrested again by the Gestapo, who considered his art to be “degenerate”. Ernst couldn’t stand being imprisoned again and he managed to escape to America with the help of Peggy Guggenheim. Meanwhile, Carrington’s mental health was getting worse and has reached the final breakdown at the British Embassy in Madrid. She was given a strong therapy by her doctors – she was treated with both cardiazol, a powerful anxiolytic drug, and luminal, a barbiturate.
In 1937, Carrington met the German painter Max Ernst, another key figure of the Surrealist movement. The two of them fell in love and formed a strong bond, beyond typical romantic relationship. They lived and worked together in Paris and supported each other’s artistic ideas and vision. They also created a couple of collaborative pieces they used to embellish their home. Unfortunately, Max Ernst was arrested by the Nazis while he was living in France; consequently, Carrington had to move to Spain. Due to her anxiety and fears related to Ernst’s situation with the Nazis, she suffered a mental breakdown and ended up being institutionalized. Her experience in the mental hospital catalyzed her career as a writer and many of her written and visual works were produced after she was released from the hospital, such as her novel Down Below from 1972 and her paintings Portrait of Dr. Morales from 1940 and Map of Down Below from 1943. When it comes to Max Ernst and his career, he was discharged from the Nazi prison thanks to the help of Paul Éluard and other friends. But soon after the Nazis invaded France, he was arrested again by the Gestapo, who considered his art to be “degenerate”. Ernst couldn’t stand being imprisoned again and he managed to escape to America with the help of Peggy Guggenheim. Meanwhile, Carrington’s mental health was getting worse and has reached the final breakdown at the British Embassy in Madrid. She was given a strong therapy by her doctors – she was treated with both cardiazol, a powerful anxiolytic drug, and luminal, a barbiturate.
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