Art of the 20th Century

 



Art Styles in 20th century Art Map



 

 




Max Ernst




 


 


Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in 1948.


 

 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.

 

 


Oedipus Rex
1922



 


Woman, Old Man and Flower
1923



 


Marlene



 


Jardin gobe avions



 


Jardin gobe avions



 


Jardin gobe avions



 


El bebedor de cocteles



 


Pieta or Revolution by Night



 


The Temptation of St. Anthony
1945





Young Chimera
1921




El retorno de la bella jardinera



 


Surrealism and Painting
1942



 


At the First Clear Word



 


Sign for a School of Monsters
1968




Euclides



 


Human Form
1931



 


Il cacciatore



 


The Couple or The Couple in Lace
1925