Max Ernst

Ernst conjures eerie Surrealist dreamscapes using frottage and collage — petrified forests, strange birds, and hallucinatory textures. Look for uncanny imagery, scraped patterns, and unsettling invented worlds.

Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a painter from Germany, associated with Surrealism.

A 20th-century movement of dream logic and the unconscious — impossible, uncanny imagery rendered vividly. Surrealism →

More Surrealism painters: Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Frida Kahlo.

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