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'''Edgar Karl Alfons Ende''' (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German [[surrealism|surrealist]] painter and father of the children's novelist [[Michael Ende]].

Ende attended the [[Altona, Hamburg|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 art|degenerate]] by the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] government. Beginning in 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work.<ref>[http://www.kultiversum.de/Literatur-Literaturen/Evolutionstheorie-Julia-Voss-Darwins-Jim-Knopf-Im-Zickzack-durch-Lummerland.html "Im Zickzack durch Lummerland"] Book review of [[Julia Voss]], ''Darwins Jim Knopf''. Kultiversum.de (2009), p.&nbsp;1. Retrieved 4 August 2011 {{in lang|de}}</ref> In 1940 he was conscripted into the [[Luftwaffe]] as an operator of [[anti-aircraft artillery]].

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]], 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]].

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]]''), 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.