Max Ernst ( ) 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 : joined with the group of artists where works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin and who inspired and influenced him : 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 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 : 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 ( ) 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.

Surrealism and painting

LA FUITE By Max ErnstMax Ernst

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

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

The Garden of France,1962

Cocktail Drinker – 1945 by Max Ernst

Oedipus Rex By Max Ernst_ 1922

MOON II By Max Ernst Max Ernst

PAYSAGE ALPIN By Max ErnstMax Ernst

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

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

LA NAISSANCE DE VÉNUS By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1957

LA LOUVE ROMAINE By Max Ernst Max Ernst

IT'S A HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN By Max ErnstMax Ernst

MUSCHELBLUME By Max ErnstMax Ernst

JEUNE FILLE CHANGÉE EN LOCOMOTIVE By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1970

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

HALLUCINATION By Max Ernst Max Ernst

FORÊT ET SOLEIL After Max ErnstMax Ernst 1956

TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1945

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

OHNE TITEL By Max ErnstMax Ernst 1925

FACILITÉ By Max Ernst _1923Max Ernst

LA LOTERIE DU JARDIN ZOOLOGIQUE By Max Ernst _1951Max Ernst

SPECTACLE By Max Ernst-1950Max Ernst

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

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

TÊTE D'HOMME By Max Ernst _1971Max Ernst

DANSEUSES By Max ErnstMax Ernst

STERNBILD II (NOCTURNE II) By Max ErnstMax Ernst

HORSE AND COWS By Max Ernst -1919Max Ernst

By Max Ernst + Follow this Artist Les visiteurs du dimancheMax Ernst

FLEURS EXOTIQUES By Max Ernst -1928Max Ernst

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

UNTITLED By Max Ernst -1965Max Ernst

Jean CrottiPortrait of Edison 1920

COLORADEAU DE MDUSE By Max Ernst Max Ernst

COMPOSITION By Max Ernst Max Ernst

FESTIN XII. By Max Ernst Max Ernst

GRACIEUSE (PREMIÈRE VERSION) By Max ErnstMax Ernst

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

Untiled By Max Ernst 1921Max Ernst