Max Ernst | "Pour Lewis Caroll", 1971 lithograph / Arches paper (watermark) 23 x 18 cm (picture) signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'XII/LV' | 'Max Ernst' Literature: Spies Leppien, 204 B Professionally framed. Max Ernst is one of the most outstanding German artists, one of the leading representatives of surrealism. Initially, he studied philosophy in Bonn (from 1908). After the end of World War I, in which he fought as an artilleryman, he settled in Cologne, where he became involved with the Dadaist movement. He settled permanently in Paris in 1922. In 1924, after the official emergence of surrealism, Ernst joined this movement, from which he was later excluded twice (in 1938 and 1954). During World War II, he lived in the United States, returning to France in 1953, where he lived until his death in 1976. On September 4, 2005, the Max Ernst Museum Brühl was opened in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, the artist's hometown. It is entirely devoted to the artist's work. He created collages, drawings, and illustrations for stories and poems by friends, including Paul Eluard, and was also involved in graphic arts.