Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning – Neue Nationalgalerie

Since 17 October 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie, in cooperation with the Central Archive, has been showing the exhibition ‘Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection’. One hundred years after the ‘First Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924), the exhibition offers new insights into the wide-ranging networks of this international art movement of the 20th century. The focus is on both the biographies of the works and the lives of key female artists, dealers and collectors of Surrealism.

Based on a representative selection of paintings and sculptures by artists such as Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Joan Miró and Dorothea Tanning, the exhibition presents the results of a research project conducted in collaboration with the State of Berlin on the provenance of artworks from the collection of Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The exhibition not only reveals the diverse paths taken by Surrealist artworks, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, but also illustrates how historical circumstances, personal relationships and networks contributed to the spread of …

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Fig. above: Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch at the opening of the exhibition ‘Bilderträume. Works from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection’ with André Masson, Massacre, 1931, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, photo: ddp/ Axel Schmidt

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