Max Ernst Untitled, 1961 Literture: Spies Leppien, 128A Etching and aquatint on Arches vellum Signed and numbered 8/99 38 x 28.5 cm ----- MAX ERNST (1891-1976) Sans Titre, 1961 Eau forte et aquatinte sur vélin d'Arches Signée et numérotée 8/99 38 x 28,5 cm (Spies Leppien, 128A) ---- Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. Max Ernst was born in Brühl, 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. In 1912, he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced him. His work was exhibited that year together with that of the Das Junge Rheinland group, at Galerie Feldman in Cologne, and then in several group exhibitions in 1913. In his paintings of this period, Ernst adopted an ironic style that juxtaposed grotesque elements alongside Cubist and Expressionist motifs. #artmasterpieceQ2