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Max Ernst and the Surrealist group visited the Porte of St. Denis regularly and it was here that Ernst was inspired to paint his 'Forest' series, which he started in 1927: '...Porte St. Denis was a pretext for Max Ernst to come to terms with the forest images of his early childhood...' (J. Russell, Max Ernst, Life and Work, London, 1967)
'At a very early point in time Max Ernst had become an admirer of both Albrecht Altdorfer and Caspar David Friedrich. Without the tradition of German Forest painting his own would have been unthinkable...In these pictures Max ERnst continues the tradition, which originates with Caspar David Friedrich, of imbuing a landscape with the content of subjective experiences. In a technique which brings together brushwork, application of paint with the palette-knife, scraping and scratching, he contrasts dark walls of foliage with the mainly bright rings which stand for suns...These forest pictures, reflections of a childhood experience...are manifestations of the co-existence of dark and light, reality and dream, menace and hope' (U.M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, p. 105)
'At a very early point in time Max Ernst had become an admirer of both Albrecht Altdorfer and Caspar David Friedrich. Without the tradition of German Forest painting his own would have been unthinkable...In these pictures Max ERnst continues the tradition, which originates with Caspar David Friedrich, of imbuing a landscape with the content of subjective experiences. In a technique which brings together brushwork, application of paint with the palette-knife, scraping and scratching, he contrasts dark walls of foliage with the mainly bright rings which stand for suns...These forest pictures, reflections of a childhood experience...are manifestations of the co-existence of dark and light, reality and dream, menace and hope' (U.M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, p. 105)