Max Ernst Museum Brühl of LVR

The Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR is the only museum in the world dedicated to the work and life of the artist Max Ernst (1891-1976). Changing special exhibitions showcase exhibits from the modern and contemporary periods.

The Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR exhibits paintings, collages, graphics, sculptures and assemblages, which provide an overview of the extensive oeuvre of the Dadaist and Surrealist. Special exhibitions present international artistic positions of the modern and contemporary periods that are in the tradition of a Dadaist or Surrealist mindset.

The painter, sculptor, draughtsman and poet Max Ernst is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He uses indirect working methods, such as grattage (scratching off) or the process of abklatsch. Exploiting hallucinatory skills, the artist reinterprets objects and structures from his environment and repeatedly breaks them up through irony and humour.