MAX Ernst's life spanned seven decades of dramatic political and social tumult, and artistic revolution, too. Born near Cologne in 1891, Ernst served in the German trenches of World War I and ...

Surveying the long career of German-born artist Max Ernst (1891–1976), this exhibition puts emphasis on his engagement with process. MoMA has drawn from its holdings of Ernst’s paintings ...

The founder of Cologne’s branch of Dada and an early Surrealist, Ernst started using the phrase “beyond painting” in the early nineteen-twenties. Sometimes he applied it to technical ...

The oil on masonite work shows an imagined view of a canyon in Sedona and is part of “a wonderful series of paintings from Ernst’s Sedona period that are like otherworldly mooonscapes, and ...

Watch Nigel Freeman appraise a 1947 Max Ernst "Dangerous Liaisons" etching in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

The Surrealists rejected the art conventions. For Max Ernst, this meant inventing new techniques such as grattage. Ernst began with collage in the 1910s before moving onto frottage and grattage.

The oil painting, completed in 1916 ... Their sons, Ernst and Max, inherited the collection of approximately 500 works in 1926. When the Nazis began to rise to power, Ernst and his wife, ...

From this hallucinatory landscape in glowing orange hues, it is easy to see why the Surrealist artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning settled in Sedona, Arizona, in 1946, having happened upon the ...