- Artist
- Ernst, Max
- Title
- Untitled
- Technique
- etching
- Date
- 1950
- Dimensions
- 17.5cm height x 21.5cm width
- Type
- Accession Number
- 2020.2.42
- Collection
- Permanent Collection
Gift of the Estate of Harry Locke
Max Ernst was born in Brühl, near Cologne in 1891. A key member of first Dada and then Surrealism in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s, Max Ernst used a variety of mediums—painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, and various unconventional drawing methods—to give visual form to both personal memory and collective myth. By combining illusionistic technique with a cut-and-paste logic, he made the incredible believable, expressing disjunctions of the mind and shocks of societal upheavals with unsettling clarity.