page_title: Max Ernst
section_title: Early works
hierarchical_section_title: Max Ernst / Selected works / Paintings / Early works
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Répétitions, 1922, by Paul Éluard, with illustrations by Max Ernst. Typ 915.22.3605, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. 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 objects as a source of images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages.
context_section_description: Aquis Submersus (1919)
  Trophy, Hypertrophied (1919)
  Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person (1919–1920)
  Murdering Airplane (1920)
  The Hat Makes the Man (1920)
  Celebes (1921)
  Oedipus Rex (1922)
caption: Cover of Répétitions, with illustrations by Max Ernst
exif: {}