Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning (born 25 August 1910) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Tanning lived in Paris for twenty-eight years. She met the German painter Max Ernst in 1942 and married him four years later (his fourth wife, after Luise Straus-Ernst in 1918, Marie-Berthe Aurenche in 1927 and Peggy Guggenheim in 1942). He introduced her to the circle of the Surrealists. Her best-known work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a dark painting laden with symbolism; ironically named after Mozart's light-hearted serenade), shows that she became a member of that group for a while, but later her painting style changed to Impressionism.
She now lives and works in New York City and is enjoying a second career as a poet.
[edit] Bibliography
- Abyss (New York: Standard Editions, 1977)
- Birthday - Memoirs (Lapis Press, 1986)
- Between Lives - Autobiography (WW Norton, 2001)
- A Table of Content - Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)
[edit] External links
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943) - Tate Gallery, London, UK
- Examples of paintings 1978-1997
- Salon.com - "Oldest living surrealist tells all"
- Ten Dreams Galleries
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