Ernst, Maximilian

(4/2/1891 Bruhl-4/1/1976 Paris) (Germany / USA / France)

   Sculptor, painter, and graphic artist. Largely self-trained artist. Best known as a Dadaist and Surrealist. Became a naturalized American in the late 1940s and a naturalized Frenchman in the 1950s.

   Reproductions: And the people won't know a thing; 1923; oil; Neret 1993: p. 130 . Garden of France; 1962; oil; Neret 1993: p. 29 [C]. Le jardin des hesperides; 1935; oil; Smith, 1980: pp. 188-189 [C]. L'Oiseau Jacob [scenes of auto-fellatio] [attributed to]; Weiermair, 1995: pp. 188-191 [C]. Robing of the bride; 1939; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 160 [C] / Melville, 1973: fig. 144 [C]. [Surrealistic lovers]; oil; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 117 .

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 5: pp. 268 -273; Lucy R. Lippard, "World of Dadamax Ernst," Art News 74, 4 (April 1975): pp. 27-30; G. Metken, "Paramythen: Max Ernst Haus in Saint-Martin d'Ardeche," Pantheon 32, 3 (July-September 1974): pp. 289-296; Vollmer II 1955: p. 52.