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One of the artists most dedicated to the surrealist life was Max Ernst. How to be a Surrealist with Philippa Perry, BBC 2017
Max Ernst: The Entire City 1934 ... A radical anarchic Dada artist ... Dada being this movement that sought to destroy art; it was ant-art. Out of the ashes of Dada came Surrealism. Tim Marlow on ... The New Tate Modern
[Max] Ernst had become deeply influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud: Men Shall Know Nothing of This. Great Artists in Their Own Words I: The Future is Now 1907-1939, BBC 2013
After serving in the German army during World War I, Ernst was converted to Dada, a nihilistic art movement, and formed a group of Dada artists in Cologne; with the artist-poet Jean Arp, he edited journals and created a scandal by staging a Dada exhibit in a public rest room. More important, however, were his Dada collages and photo-montages, such as Here Everything is Still Floating (1920), a startlingly illogical composition made from cut-out photographs of insects, fish, and anatomical drawings ingeniously arranged to suggest the multiple identity of the things depicted. Encyclopaedia Britannica online
His first American show was held at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, in 1932. In 1936 Ernst was represented in Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1939 he was interned in France as an enemy alien. Two years later Ernst fled to the United States with Peggy Guggenheim, whom he married early in 1942. After their divorce he married Dorothea Tanning and in 1953 resettled in France. Guggenheim online article