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        <h1>Max Ernst (1891-1976)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">We Perform Max Ernst art authentication. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/appraisal/painting-appraisal.php">Max Ernst appraisal</a> from . <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/certificate-of-authenticity.php">Max Ernst certificates of authenticity (COA)</a>.  Max Ernst analysis, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/provenance-research.php">research</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/scientific-tests.php">scientific tests</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication.php">full art authentications</a>. We will help you sell your Max Ernst or we will sell it for you.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_L'AngeDuFoyerOuLeTriompheDuSurrealism1937.jpg" alt="L'Ange du Foyer ou Le Triomphe du Surrealism 1937" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">L’Ange du Foyer ou Le Triomphe du Surrealism 1937</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Max Ernst has been hailed as the master of Surrealism, and was one of the forerunners of this popular movement. Born in Cologne, Germany, Ernst was originally a student of philosophy at the University in Bonn, but quickly abandoned his studies. At that time, he was interested in psychology and the art of the mentally ill, but his focus eventually moved on to his own artistic endeavors. He would eventually become one of the greatest names in Surrealism and the Dada movement.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_OedipusRex1922.jpg" alt="Oedipus Rex 1922" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Oedipus Rex 1922</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Ernst showed his work for the first time in 1912 at the Galerie Feldman in Cologne. His earliest work was Expressionistic in nature. In 1913, he traveled to Paris where he lived and worked for a time. Ernst began to first create Surrealist paintings, prints and collages in 1919 after a meeting with artist Paul Klee. Ernst was essentially self taught, though it is likely that he worked alongside and was helped by other famous artists of the day, such as Klee. Ernst mainly used catalogs and textbooks to create these cut out collages, which he would use to create bizarre quotations for compositions. Ernst would also use found objects, such as in his 1919 collage “Fruit of a Long Experience.”</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_FruitOFALongExperience.jpg" alt="Fruit of a Long Experience 1919" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Fruit of a Long Experience 1919</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_TheGramineuosBicycle.jpg" alt="The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses 1921" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses 1921</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_ElephantCelebes1921.jpg" alt="Elephant Celebes 1921" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Elephant Celebes 1921</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The onset of World War I halted Ernst’s artistic endeavors while he served in the German army; however, serving in the war gave him a great deal of inspiration. After his service, Ernst formed the Cologne, Germany Dada group with Jean Arp and Alfred Grunwald. His paintings during the early 1920’s were brimming with German Romanticism, such as dark forests, ghostlike figures, gloomy caves and cliffs and moonlight dappled landscapes, and were probably a result of his time serving in the war. Ernst would again revisit German Romanticism in the late 1920’s, but with a Surrealist twist.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Untitled1920.jpg" alt="Untitled 1920" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Untitled 1920</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_FishboneForrest.jpg" alt="Fishbond Forrest 1927" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Fishbond Forrest 1927</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_AfterUsMotherhood1927.jpg" alt="After Us Motherhood 1927" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">After Us Motherhood 1927</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_CageForrestAndBlackSun1927.jpg" alt="Cage, Forrest and Black Sun 1927" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Cage, Forrest and Black Sun 1927</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1922, Ernst moved to the Montparnasse region of France, and a few years later began to experiment with an art technique that he called “frottage.” This would become an automatic method used by the Surrealists where they would use a pencil or other drawing tool to rub on paper over a textured surface, therefore creating a “rubbing” imprint on the paper. Later, Ernst would also create the Surrealist technique of “grattage” with Joan Miro, which is the practice of scraping dry paint off of a canvas to create a design.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Frottage.jpg" alt="Frottage"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Frottage</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Frottage1970.jpg" alt="Frottage 1970"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Frottage 1970</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Ernst held his first exhibition of Surrealist paintings in 1925 in Paris. His paintings were often controversial, especially his 1926 painting “The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and the Painter.”</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_VirginSpankingChristChild.jpg" alt="The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and the Painter 1926"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and the Painter 1926</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">His paintings also took on an erotic tone after he married his second wife in 1927, whom Ernst called an inspiration for all of his paintings that year. In 1930, Ernst also worked alongside Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel to create the film “L’Age d’or.”</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_nude.jpg" alt="nude, The Garden of France 1962"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">nude, The Garden of France 1962</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Ernst held his first American exhibit in 1932 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. In 1934, Ernst began to sculpt when he became friends with fellow artist Alberto Giacometti. At the onset of World War II, Ernst was named an enemy alien and was detained in Europe for a short while. However, he was able to escape and flee to the United States with Peggy Guggenheim in 1941. Ernst and Guggenheim were married the following year. However, this relationship also did not last, and Ernst married his fourth wife in a double wedding with fellow artist Man Ray in 1946.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Antipope.jpg" alt="Antipope 1941"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Antipope 1941</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">After he fled to the United States, Ernst made America his primary home for many years, living mostly in Sedona, Arizona. While in Arizona, he was inspired by the pictorial landscape, and also created a number of found art sculptures.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_TheKingPlayingWithTheQueenSculpture.jpg" alt="The King Playing with the Queen sculpture"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The King Playing with the Queen sculpture</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In his early days in the US, Ernst lived in New York City, working alongside other refugee artists like Marc Chagall and Marcel Duchamp. Together, these three were integral in the development of Abstract Expressionism. Despite marrying socialite and art aficionado Peggy Guggenheim, Ernst did not start to achieve a great deal of success as an artist until after their marriage ended. His 1948 manifesto “Beyond Painting” gained him a great deal of notoriety, and he shortly found financial success thereafter.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_FeastOfTheGod1948.jpg" alt="Feast of the God 1948" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Feast of the God 1948</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Throughout his entire career, Ernst had a fixation with birds which translated through onto his canvas. In some of his paintings, he features a character called “Loplop,” a bird-like creature which represents his alter ego, and also served as a narrator for his paintings.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_TheWordOrWomanBirds.jpg" alt="The Word or Woman Bird 1921"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Word or Woman Bird 1921</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_LoplopIntroducesLoplop1930.jpg" alt="Loplop Introduces Loplop 1930" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Loplop Introduces Loplop 1930</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_TheRobingOfTheBride1940.jpg" alt="The Robing of the Bride 1940" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Robing of the Bride 1940</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1963, Ernst finally moved back to Europe where he lived in a small town in the south of France where he continued to work until his death in 1976. Ernst died in Paris on the day before his 85th birthday, and is buried in the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetary.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_SignForASchoolOfMonsters1968.jpg" alt="Sign for a School of Monsters 1968"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Sign for a School of Monsters 1968</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Today, Ernst’s work is housed in modern art museums all over the world, and perhaps in your own home. Because Ernst moved around quite often and did not gain notoriety until late in his career, some of his unknown works could be literally anywhere. Furthermore, as a hostile alien in Europe during World War II, many of his pieces may have been seized by the government and are somewhere still in storage, just waiting to be found. Still wondering about a Surrealist collage or painting hanging in your home? <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">Contact us</a>…it could be by Max Ernst.</p>
      
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