Max
Ernst
Max Ernst: Ein Leben im Surrealismus Frühes Leben und Ausbildung Geboren: 1. April 1891 in Brühl, Deutschland. Ernsts Vater, Philipp Ernst, war Lehrer für Gehörlose und Amateurmaler, der Maxes frühes Interesse an Kunst förderte. Von 1909 studierte er Philosophie, Kunstgeschichte, Literatur, Psychologie und Psychiatrie an …
A portrait built from Max Ernst's own colours
Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
