Art of the 20th Century

 



Art Styles in 20th century Art Map



 

 




Max Ernst




 


Max Ernst
1946


 


 

 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.

 


 


The Master's Bedroom, It's Worth Spending a Night There



 


The Song of the Flesh

1921



 


L'uccello aveva ragione



 


L'arrivo dei viaggiatori



 


Untitle



 


Fruit of a Long Experience
1919



 


Vive l'amour (Le Pays Charmant)




Dibujo al natural



 


La collera dell'uomo rosso



 


Les dieux obscurs




The Blind Swimmer



 


Vox Angelica
1945



 


Aquis submersus
1919



 


Nada va más allá



 


33 muchachas buscando una mariposa blanca



 


Capricorn
1948



 


The King Playing with the Queen
1944



 


Cheri Bibi