Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German artist who made significant contributions to the Dada and Surrealist art movements. He was heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. Ernst developed his own unique art techniques focusing on collage, frottage, and grattage. He gained popularity in Germany, France, and the United States and influenced many American Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.
Paintings by Max Ernst in Chronological Order
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| Landscape with Sun, 1909 | Self-Portrait, 1909 | Untitled, 1909 |
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| Crucifixion, 1913 | Towers, 1916 | Ambiguous Figures (1 copper plate, 1 zinc plate, 1 rubber cloth…), c.1919 |
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| Aquis submersus, 1919 | Family Excursions, c.1919 | Hat in Hand, Hat on Head, c.1919 |
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| A little sick horse’s leg, 1920 | Dada-Gauguin, 1920 | Hydrometric Demonstration, 1920 |
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| Katharina Ondulata, 1920 | Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti, 1920 | Stratified Rocks, Nature’s Gift of Gneiss Lava Iceland Moss…, 1920 |
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| The Chinese Nightingale, 1920 | The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses, 1920 | The hat makes the man, 1920 |
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| The Small Fistule That Says Tic Tac, 1920 | Birds also Birds, Fish Snake and Scarecrow, c.1921 | The Elephant Celebes, 1921 |
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| A Friends’ Reunion, 1922 | Untitled (Dada), c.1922 | At the first clear word, 1923 |
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| Enter, Exit, 1923 | Of This Men Shall Know Nothing, 1923 | Pieta (Revolution by Night), 1923 |
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| Saint Cecilia (Invisible piano), 1923 | The wavering woman, 1923 | Gala Éluard, 1924 |
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| Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924 | Paris dream, 1925 | Sea and Sun, 1925 |
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| She keeps her secret, 1925 | The Blue Forest, 1925 | The Couple in Lace, 1925 |
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| The Great Lover, 1926 | The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926 | They have slept in the forest too long, 1926 |
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| After Us Motherhood, 1927 | Child, Horse, Flower and Snake, 1927 | Forest, 1927 |
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| Forest and Dove, 1927 | Max Ernst Showing a Young Girl the Head of his Father, c.1927 | The Kiss, 1927 |
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| Flowers of seashells, 1929 | Petrified Forest, 1929 | The Hundred-headless Woman Opens her August Sleeve, 1929 |
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| The Inner Vision: The Egg, 1929 | Loplop Introduces a Young Girl, 1930 | Human Form, 1931 |
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| Birth of Zoomorph Couple, 1933 | The Embalmed Forest, 1933 | Blind swimmers (Effect of a touch), 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 | Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934 |
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| My Absolute, 1934 | Flying Horse Garden, 1935 | Garden Airplane Trap, 1935 |
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| The Entire City, c.1935 | Landscape with Wheatgerm, 1936 | Lust for life, 1936 |
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| Barbarians, 1937 | Barbarians Marching to the West, 1937 | The Angel of Hearth and Home, 1937 |
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| Lone Tree and United Trees, 1940 | Europe after the Rain II, c.1941 | Napoleon in the Wilderness, 1941 |
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| Wizard Woman, 1941 | Everyone Here Speaks Latin, 1943 | Gypsy Rose Lee, 1943 |
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| The Eye of Silence, 1943 | The King Playing with the Queen, 1944 | Cocktail Drinker, 1945 |
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| Euclid, 1945 | Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945 | Feast of the God, 1948 |
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| Untitled, 1949 | Compendium of the History of the Universe, 1953 | Flower Shell, c.1956 |
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| 33 Little Girls Chasing Butterflies, 1958 | The cardinals are dying, 1962 | Sanctuary, 1965 |
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| Birth of a galaxy, 1969 | Homage to Marcel Duchamp, 1970 | Red Forest, 1970 |
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| Commonplaces – Everyday, 1971 | Some animals are illiterate, 1973 | Configuration No.16, 1974 |
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| All lanes of lilac evening, 1975 | The dull military broods in front of my right wing, 1975 | The world map makes a mockery, 1975 |
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| Antipodes of Landscape | Collage | Dark forest and bird |
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| Illustration to “Mainacht in Vienna”, Leo Perutz | La grand malade | My Friend Pierrot |
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| Father Ubu with son | The dog that craps dog wearing well despite the difficult terrain caused by heavy snow in the woman’s throat beautiful song of the flesh | The Fall of an Angel |
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| The master’s bedroom, it’s worth spending a night there | Two sisters | Untitled |