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View all 368 artworks. Max Ernst lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of German Dada and Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- Forest and Dove
Forest and Dove exemplifies Ernst's pioneering "grattage"...
- The Elephant Celebes
‘The Elephant Celebes’ was created in 1921 by Max Ernst in...
- Ubu Imperator, 1923
Like many of Ernst's paintings during his Paris period...
- Vox Angelica
‘Vox Angelica’ was created in 1945 by Max Ernst in...
- Loplop Introduces Loplop
‘Loplop Introduces Loplop’ was created in 1930 by Max Ernst...
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German-born Max Ernst was a provocateur, a shocking and innovative artist who mined his unconscious for dreamlike imagery that mocked social conventions. A soldier in World War I, Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. These charged sentiments directly fed into his vision of the modern world as irrational, an idea ...
Max Ernst attacked the conventions and traditions of art, all the while possessing a thorough knowledge of European art history. He questioned the sanctity of art by creating non-representational w...Ernst was profoundly interested in the art of the mentally ill as a means to access primal emotion and unfettered creativity.Ernst was one of the first artists to apply Sigmund Freud'sdream theories investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst...Interested in locating the origin of his own creativity, Ernst attempted to freely paint from his inner psyche and in an attempt to reach a pre-verbal state of being. Doing so unleashed his primal...Childhood
Max Ernst was born into a middle-class Catholic family of nine children in Bruhl, Germany, near Cologne. Ernst first learned to paint from his father, a strict disciplinarian who was deaf, and a teacher who held an avid interest in academic art. A good deal of Ernst's work as an adult sought to undermine authority including that of his father. Other than this introduction to amateur painting at home, Ernst never received any formal training in art: thus he was responsible for his own artistic...
Early Training
Although primarily self-taught, Ernst was influenced by the works of Vincent van Gogh and August Macke, and the canvases of Giorgio de Chirico prompted his interest in dream imagery and the fantastical. Ernst mined the experiences of his childhood and war to depict both absurd and apocalyptic scenes. A subversive tendency remained strong in Ernst throughout his career, as he literally turned the world upside down in many of his works. Returning to Germany after armistice, Ernst along with the...
Mature Period
In 1922, Ernst left his first wife behind and moved to Paris, where he would live and work until 1941 - when World War II made it impossible to remain in Europe. During these decades, Surrealism came to displace Dadaism with the publication of André Breton's"First Surrealist Manifesto"(1924), and Ernst became one of the movement's founding members. Ernst and his artist-colleagues were discovering the possibilities of autonomism and dreams; in fact, his artistic investigations were aided by hy...
- German
- April 2, 1891
- Bruhl, Germany
- April 1, 1976
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe.
Mar 13, 2024 · Max Ernst’s paintings often explore themes such as dreams, the subconscious, mythology, and the human condition. His works frequently feature surreal landscapes, bizarre creatures, and enigmatic symbolism, inviting viewers to delve into the depths of the imagination and the mysteries of the psyche.
In 1925, Ernst invented a graphic art technique called frottage (see Surrealist techniques), which uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images. He also created the ' grattage ' technique, in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath.
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe.
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