Max Ernst (Ciltli)

With unparalleled artistic originalityMax Ernst(1891–1976) transformed everything he touched. Bypushing the boundariesand breaking loose from the confined view of the culture of his time, he becameone of the most important figures of Dadaism and Surrealism. Driven by the counter-reaction to the horrors of World War I, he became a pioneer of the Dada movement. The closing of the famed Dada exhibit in Cologne for ‘obscenity' led Ernst to spend the rest of his life in Paris, where he came in contact with the Surrealists.

Above all, Ernst stands out for hisvaried style and technique, having produced an oeuvre that reaches frompaintings,drawings, andsculpture, acrosstexts and stage settingstocollage novelsand the development ofhis own ‘frottage' technique. During World War II, Ernst, like many of his colleagues, became an ‘undesirable foreigner' and was forced to emigrate; however, he returned to France after the war. Continuing a career that spanned decades, in 1954 he received the Grand Prize for Painting at the Biennial in Venice.

This book is a journey through magic, vividness, and fantasy. It isa gateway into the intricate mind and world of Max Ernst.

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