Art of the 20th Century

 



Art Styles in 20th century Art Map



 

 




Max Ernst




 


Max Ernst
1941


 

 Max Ernst

 

(b Brühl, nr Cologne, 2 April 1891; d Paris, 1 April 1976).

German painter, printmaker and sculptor, naturalized American in 1948 and French in 1958. He was a major contributor to the theory and practice of SURREALISM. His work challenged and disrupted what he considered to be repressive aspects of European culture, in particular Christian doctrine, conventional morality and the aesthetic codes of Western academic art. Until the mid-1920s he was little known outside a small circle of artists and writers in Cologne and Paris, but he became increasingly successful from c. 1928 onwards. After 1945 he was respected and honoured as a surviving representative of a ‘heroic’ generation of avant-garde artists.

 



 


Fishbone Forest
1927



 


Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
1924



 

Napoleon in the wilderness
1941



 


Paris-sueno



 


After Us Motherhood
1927



 


Ubu padre con hijo



 


Una joven, una viuda y una esposa



 


Vision Induced by the Nocturnal Aspect of the Porte St. Denis
1927



 


Wandbid



 


Lone Tree and United Trees
1940



 


Day and Night
1941



 


El bosque embalsamado



 


La foresta grigia



 


La grande foresta



 


The Phases of the Night
1946



 


Seascape
1921



 


Landscape with Wheatgerm
1936



 


Flor-Concha



 


Snow Flowers
1929