Ernst Max - Forest

Ernst Max (Ernst, Max), German, French and American painter and sculptor, the founder of Dada, one of the leading surrealists and creators of collage techniques.

"Being a man of an ordinary constitution ...
I put all my efforts to make my soul monstrous. From a blind swimmer, as I was, I turned myself into a seer. And I found out that I fell in love with what I saw, and I want to identify myself with what I saw. Thus were born works and images of oneself "

from Max Ernst's book "Beyond Painting".

"Well, you should judge for yourself - as soon as someone in an intelligent type of Tusu says a rich word" surrealism ", then immediately all this intelligent type of Tusu in Dali's pictures begin to roll past his head, but surrealism is not only Dali. "
"Max Ernst was born in Germany, he studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn, while he did not study art ... Nevertheless, young Ernst wanted to become an artist and began to make efforts to realize this dream. to the museum and made copies there, he also went to exhibitions and watched what real artists do, most of which he liked Van Gogh and his native expressionist expressionists, which is very much felt in his early works. "