Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

In 1924 he abruptly left first for Monaco and then for Saigon Vietnam. He was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery. B.

A prolific artist Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter sculptor graphic artist and poet.