Lot 383 D

Edgar Ende endeavoured to depict the subconscious and unreal. It is not only his occupation with the psychoanalysis of Freud that becomes perceptible in his works, but just as much his synthesising interest in the pictorial worlds of the Renaissance and Romanticism. Ende's mystical formal idiom, his encrypted metaphors and complex symbols link these references together with an alchemical gesture. In the animal motif and architectonic fragment we find two pictorial elements that are typical of his work. These point to his close artistic affinity with positions in Surrealism and the Pittura Metafisica of an artist like Giorgio de Chirico.