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Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

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Max Ernst (; German: [ɛʁnst] 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Ernst is noted for his unconventional drawing methods as well as for creating novels and pamphlets using the method of collages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Ernst is the 86th most popular painter (up from 96th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Germany (up from 198th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Painter.

Max Ernst was a German painter and graphic artist. He is most famous for his surrealistic paintings.

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Among painters, Max Ernst ranks 86 out of 2,023. Before him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Georges Seurat, Berthe Morisot, Canaletto, and Bronzino. After him are Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Duccio, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Cimabue, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

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Among people born in 1891, Max Ernst ranks 7. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, Pär Lagerkvist, and John Howard Northrop. Among people deceased in 1976, Max Ernst ranks 10. Before him are Bernard Montgomery, Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, and Zhou Enlai. After him are Jean Gabin, Fritz Lang, Leopold Ružička, André Malraux, Yonatan Netanyahu, and Eyvind Johnson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Ernst ranks 175 out of 7,253. Before him are Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926), Carl Orff (1895), Franz von Papen (1879), Olaf Scholz (1958), George II of Great Britain (1683), and Caroline of Ansbach (1683). After him are Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Max von Laue (1879), Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), and Charles the Fat (839).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Max Ernst ranks 5. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472). After him are Hans Memling (1435), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Franz Marc (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), and Otto Dix (1891).

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