Max ERNST

Native placeBrühl, DEU
Birth1891
Dead placeParis, FRA
Died1976

Biography

Ernst was born in Bruhl near Cologne, Germany. He contacted the German Expressionists at the beginning of the 1910s and showed fantasy paintings in their exhibitions in Cologne and Berlin. He became the leader of the Dada movement in Cologne, achieving surprising effects through unexpected combinations of printed images in his collages. He moved to Paris in 1922 and joined the Surrealist movement which was organized in 1924. Using new techniques like frottage (rubbing) and décalcomanie (transfer) to reveal images hidden in the subconscious mind, he made some of the most creative Surrealist paintings. He also began making sculpture in the 1930s. He fled to the United States during the Second World War and lived in New York and Sedona, Arizona until 1953. He died in Paris.

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