1. Max Ernst ( 1891-1976) Was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet. Was born in Bruhl, Germany The third of nine children of middle class Catholic family. His father was a teacher of the deaf and an amateur painter. 1909: studied in the University of Bonn and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients after visiting Asylums. 1911-1913: joined with the group of artists where works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin and who inspired and influenced him. 1914- 1918: served both Western and the Eastern front in the army during world war I, met Hans Arp and became friends and their relationship lasted for forty year. 1918: returned to Cologne and married art history student Luise Straus, but their marriage was short-lived, ended in 1921- they have a son, Ulrich Jimmy Ernst, was born 1920, who also became a painter. 1922: illegally entered France, settled into a menage a trois with Eluard and his wife Gala in Paris Took various odd jobs to make a living and continued to paint. 1924: left Paris for long trips from Monaco to Saigon, Vietnam, sold a large number of his works. 1925: returned to Paris, signed a contract with Jacques Viot and established a studio at rue Tourlaque. Invented a graphic art technique called frontage( Surrealism techniques) and created the grattage technique. 1934 : began to make sculpture. 1938: the American heiress and artistic Patron peggy Guggenheim acquired a number of his works which she displayed in her museum in London. 1939: world war II, after the NAZI occupied France, he was arrested again, but escaped and flee to America with help of Guggenheim and Fry. 1941: arrived in the United States, left his second wife Leonora Carrington and she suffered a major mental breakdown. Guggenheim and Ernst were married (1941-1946) Lived in New York city and helped inspire the development of Abstract expressionism. 1946: met and married Dorothea tanning, was American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet who was born and raised in Illinois. 1948: they made their home in Sedona, Arizona and he began achieved financial success. 1953: they moved to a small town in the South of France,continued to work and published a complete catalogue of his works 1966: created a chess set made of glass which he named “Immortel” 1976: died on April 1976 in Paris.

2. Surrealism and painting

3. LA FUITE By Max ErnstMax Ernst

4. Mestrs Da Pintura e Outros(design in nature, surrealism, 1947)

5. “the wheatherman”-Max Ernst, 1951 From : artiquarian

6. The Garden of France,1962

7. Cocktail Drinker – 1945 by Max Ernst

8. Oedipus Rex By Max Ernst_ 1922

9. MOON II By Max Ernst - 1944Max Ernst

11. PAYSAGE ALPIN By Max ErnstMax Ernst

12. QUI EST CE GRANDE MALADE...? By Max ErnstMax Ernst

13. RÊVE D'UNE PETITE FILLE QUI VOULUT ENTRER AU CARMEL: '...OÙ NOUS AVIONS DRESSÉ UN PETIT PURGATOIRE... By Max Ernst 1929Max Ernst

15. LA NAISSANCE DE VÉNUS By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1957

16. LA LOUVE ROMAINE By Max Ernst - 1954Max Ernst

17. IT'S A HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN By Max ErnstMax Ernst

18. MUSCHELBLUME By Max ErnstMax Ernst

19. JEUNE FILLE CHANGÉE EN LOCOMOTIVE By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1970

20. DEATH IS SOMETHING LIKE COUSIN CYNTHIA By Max Ernst -1931Max Ernst

21. HALLUCINATION By Max Ernst - 1934Max Ernst

22. FORÊT ET SOLEIL After Max ErnstMax Ernst 1956

23. TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1945

24. DANCERS UNDER THE STARRY SKY By Max Ernst-1951Max Ernst

25. OHNE TITEL By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1925

26. FACILITÉ By Max Ernst _1923Max Ernst

27. LA LOTERIE DU JARDIN ZOOLOGIQUE By Max Ernst _1951Max Ernst

28. SPECTACLE By Max Ernst-1950Max Ernst

29. 33 FILLETTES PARTANT POUR LA CHASSE AU PAPILLON BLANC By Max Ernst _1957Max Ernst

30. PROJECT POUR UN MONUMENT A LEONARD DE VINCI By Max Ernst -1957Max Ernst

31. TÊTE D'HOMME By Max Ernst _1971Max Ernst

32. DANSEUSES By Max ErnstMax Ernst

33. STERNBILD II (NOCTURNE II) By Max ErnstMax Ernst

34. HORSE AND COWS By Max Ernst -1919Max Ernst

35. By Max Ernst + Follow this Artist -1924 Les visiteurs du dimancheMax Ernst

36. FLEURS EXOTIQUES By Max Ernst -1928Max Ernst

37. SOUS MON BLANC VÊTEMENT, TENEZ-VOUS BIEN TRANQUILLES À LA PORTE DE MON AME, CHERS PETITS LAPINS! FRAPPEZ SANS ENTRER NI SORTIR... By Max Ernst -1929Max Ernst

38. UNTITLED By Max Ernst -1965Max Ernst

39. Jean CrottiPortrait of Edison 1920

40. COLORADEAU DE MDUSE By Max Ernst - 1954Max Ernst

41. COMPOSITION By Max Ernst - 1917Max Ernst

42. FESTIN XII. By Max Ernst - 1974Max Ernst

43. GRACIEUSE (PREMIÈRE VERSION) By Max ErnstMax Ernst

44. MUSCHELBLUMEN (COQUILLAGE-FLEURS) By Max Ernst -1928Max Ernst

45. Untiled By Max Ernst 1921Max Ernst