MAX ERNST

APRIL 2, 1891 – APRIL 1, 1976

Ernst as a guerilla leader in Luis Buñuel’s 1930 film L’Age d’Or

Born this day in Brühl, of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Deutches Reich, the irrepressible spirit of Max Ernst illuminated the art-worlds of Dadaism and Surrealism before taking his brushes to America in 1941. One of the most inventive artists of the 20^th century, Ernst held his first one-man exhibition in a public urinal in Köln (Cologne).  His new techniques as well as his themes and imagery were adopted by artists such as Tanguy and Dali with nearly no alterations.