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Edgar Karl Alfons Ende (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German "Im Zickzack durch Lummerland"
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Edgar Karl Alfons Ende (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German surrealist
Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...
painter and father of the children's novelist Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy '' The Neverending Story'' (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television ...
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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 degenerate by the Nazi
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...
government. Beginning in 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work.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 Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe () was the aerial warfare, aerial-warfare branch of the before and during World War II. German Empire, Germany's military air arms during World War I, the of the Imperial German Army, Imperial Army and the of the Imperial Ge ...
as an operator of anti-aircraft artillery
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The majority of his paintings were destroyed by a bomb raid on Munich in 1944, making his surviving pre-war work extremely rare. In 1951, Ende met the recognized founder of Surrealism, André Breton
André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...
, who admired his work and declared him an official Surrealist. He continued to paint surrealist works until his death in 1965 from a myocardial infarction
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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'' () is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. It was later adapted into a film series and a television series.
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''), 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.
See also
*List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (painter), Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald ...
References
External links
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