After studying philosophy and psychiatry at Bonn he turned to painting, and in 1918 in Cologne he founded the German Dada group.  
After studying philosophy and psychiatry at Bonn he turned to painting, and in 1918 in Cologne he founded the German Dada group.  It is as a Surrealist that he made his real mark, though, with paintings like The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Artist, Breakfast on the Grass, and Homage to W.C. Fields and His Little Chickadee.  In 1941 he opened the Art of This Century Gallery in New York with the third of his four wives, art patron Peggy Guggenheim.  For 10 points, name this artist of Oedipus and Two Children Are Threatened By a Nightingale, a pioneer in the techniques of automatic writing, frottage, and collage.
After studying philosophy and psychiatry at Bonn he turned to painting, and in 1918 in Cologne he founded the German Dada group.  
Max Ernst