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Max Ernst Biography
Max Ernst (2 April - 1 April ) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.
Max ernst gala eluard biography
Early life
Max Ernst was born in Bruhl, near Cologne, the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father Philipp was a teacher of the deaf and an amateur painter, a devout Christian and a strict disciplinarian.
He inspired in Max a penchant for defying authority, while his interest in painting and sketching in nature influenced Max to take up painting himself. In Ernst enrolled in the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, art history, literature, psychology and psychiatry.
He visited asylums and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients; he also started painting that year, producing sketches in the garden of the Bruhl castle, and portraits of his sister and himself. In Ernst befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinische