"Max Ernst: A Retrospective" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 7-July 10, 2005.(Exhibition notes)

From: New Criterion | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Russell, John | Copyright information

As a maker and manipulator of images, Max Ernst was in a very high class. He did not deal simply in surprises, but in surprises that would never fail in their effect.

At the time of his death in 1976, he had French nationality. But he was throughout his life a consummate European. He was born in Bruhl, near Cologne, in 1891. His schoolteacher father, Philippe Ernst, taught deaf-mute children, but he also loved to paint, and especially to make copies after reproductions o...

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