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Edgar Karl Alfons Ende (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German

surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

painter and father of the children's novelist Michael Ende. Ende attended the Altona School of Arts and Crafts from 1916 to 1920. In 1922 he married Gertrude Strunck, but divorced four years later. He remarried in 1929, the same year his son Michael was born. In the 1930s Ende's Surrealist paintings began to attract considerable critical attention, but were then condemned as

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by the

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government. Beginning in 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work."Im Zickzack durch Lummerland"
Book review of

Julia Voss Julia Voss (born 1974) is a German journalist and scientific historian. She is a writer and art critic who works at the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''.

, ''Darwins Jim Knopf''. Kultiversum.de (2009), p. 1. Retrieved 4 August 2011 In 1940 he was conscripted into the

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as an operator of

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. The majority of his paintings were destroyed by a bomb raid on

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in 1944, making his surviving pre-war work extremely rare. In 1951, Ende met the recognized founder of Surrealism,

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, who admired his work and declared him an official Surrealist. He continued to paint surrealist works until his death in 1965 from a

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. Ende's paintings are thought to have had a significant influence on his son's writing. This is inferred in the scenes depicting the surreal dream-paintings from Yor's Minroud in ''Die Unendliche Geschichte'' (''

The Neverending Story ''The Neverending Story'' (german: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several ...

''), and is made explicit in Michael Ende's book ''Der Spiegel im Spiegel'' ('' The mirror in the mirror''), a collection of short stories based on (and printed alongside) Edgar Ende's surrealist works.

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www.edgarende.de
- Extensive information, including pictures of his work (German and English). {{DEFAULTSORT:Ende, Edgar 1901 births 1965 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters German surrealist artists

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