Early On

• Born April 2, 1891
• Max Ernst was one of nine children, a middle class family in Germany
• Informal introduction to the arts, learned painting from his father
• Obtained his college degree in Philosophy & Psychology 1914
• Followed by a 4 year service to the German army
• Moved back to Germany after WWI, but the horrors he had experienced stayed with him
• They influenced much of his work & he became a leader in the Dada Movement
• 1919 began his first fantastic collages

Ambiguous Figures, 1919

Family Excursions, 1919

Fruit of a Long Experience, 1919

Hat in Hand, Hat on Head 1919