Russian Federation, France. 1886 - 1944
Constructivist sculpture, abstract and non-objective painting
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1891 Cologne, Germany - 1976 Paris, France. Known for: Abstraction, surrealism, dada art.
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for... Read full biography
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for deaf-mutes. From earliest childhood, Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images which became... Read full biography
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for deaf-mutes. From earliest childhood, Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images which became factors in his work throughout his life. He was a nervous impressionable boy, in constant friction with authority. During an illness, Ernst stared at the wood flooring and ended up discovering a new... Read full biography
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for deaf-mutes. From earliest childhood, Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images which became factors in his work throughout his life. He was a nervous impressionable boy, in constant friction with authority. During an illness, Ernst stared at the wood flooring and ended up discovering a new painting technique that he called "frottage." He took paper and pencil, laid them over the textured surface and scribbled away. Allied to this was Ernst's use of paint sponged and knifed on a canvas, with the images it suggested sharpened with a brush.... Read full biography
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in a small Rhineland town called Bruhl, outside Cologne. His father, a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, was an amateur painter who taught at a school for deaf-mutes. From earliest childhood, Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images which became factors in his work throughout his life. He was a nervous impressionable boy, in constant friction with authority. During an illness, Ernst stared at the wood flooring and ended up discovering a new painting technique that he called "frottage." He took paper and pencil, laid them over the textured surface and scribbled away. Allied to this was Ernst's use of paint sponged and knifed on a canvas, with the images it suggested sharpened with a brush. Ernst went to the University of Bonn, studying philosophy and psychiatry at a time, 1909, when the subject was barely a... Read full biography
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Switzerland, France. 1901 - 1966
Surreal elongated figural sculpture, painting
New York / France. 1876 - 1958
Fauve landscape painting
Connecticut / France, Spain. 1896 - 1987
Surrealism, abstract expressionist painting
France, Switzerland. 1886/87 - 1966
Abstract sculpture, installation, painting
France, Spain. 1887 - 1927
Cubist still life painting, graphics
New York / Colombia, France. 1932 - 2023
Round female figure painting, sculpture
New York / United Kingdom, Mexico, France. 1917 - 2011
Narrative, surrealism and dreamscape painting, wood sculpture
Hanover / Germany, United Kingdom. 1887 - 1948
Abstract painting, collage, poetry, environmental sculpture
France. 1882 - 1963
Cubist interior and still-life painting, collage, lithography
Netherlands, Holland, France. 1877 - 1968
Fauve and expressionist painting-aristocratic portraits
Germany, Belgium. 1898 - 1967
Surrealist painting-figure, landscape
United Kingdom, England. 1898 - 1986
Sculpture, large-scale & abstract figure; Drawing
Switzerland, Germany. 1879 - 1940
Childlike fantasy and imagination painting, teaching
France. 1885 - 1941
Painting-cubism
Austria. 1928 - 2000
Modernist painting, poster design, printmaking
France, Romania. 1903 - 1966
Surrealist painting
Austria. 1890 - 1918
Landscapes, portraits, nudes, interiors and city scene painting
PA, New York, Pennsylvania, California / France. 1890 - 1976
Dada, surreal, cubist imagery
Connecticut / France. 1900 - 1955
Surreal vegetal landscape painting
France, Russian Federation. 1893 - 1943
Expressionist portrait, still-life and landscape painting
Spain, France. 1893 - 1983
Abstract curvilinear design painting, collage, mural
France, Japan, Switzerland. 1886 - 1968
Adult-like child portrait, modernist animal, figure and still life painting
Venezuela, France. 1923 - 2019
Kinetic and op art, painting, design, graphics, teaching
California / France, Israel, Poland. 1891 - 1953
Child figure, nudes and portrait painting
California, New York / France, Poland, Mexico. 1898 - 1980
Art deco female figure and portrait painting
California, New York / China. Born 1933
Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings
England. Born 1937
Female figure contemporary realism painting and sculpture, eroticism
France. 1885 - 1954
Modernist, abstract sculpture, collage, drawings
France, United States. 1904 - 1987
Abstract painting
Italy, France. 1884 - 1920
Elongated female figure painting
United Kingdom. 1894 - 1982
Cubist painting