Max Ernst

Max Ernst, (born April 2, 1891, Brühl, Ger.—died April 1, 1976, Paris, Fr.), German painter, sculptor, one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art, and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism. His youthful interests were psychiatry and philosophy, but he abandoned his studies at the University of Bonn for painting. After serving in the German arm...