Max Ernst was born in Germany in 1891 and studied philosophy at the Bonn university from 1909 to 1911. Max Ernst did not have any formal art education but he had his first exhibition in Berlin in 1913, and in the same year went to Paris. In Paris Max Ernst discovered the works of Picasso and de Chirico and in 1914 he met Arp. Max Ernst went through a Dadaist phase of art and founded the Cologne dada group and began creating Fatagaga collages. The first exhibit from this group was banned by officials because they deemed it immoral. In 1922 Max Ernst moved to Paris, contributed to many Dadaist publications, and helped found the Surrealist movement. Max Ernst moved to New York in 1942 and lived there until his return to France in 1954 until his death in 1976.
