Variously translated as “The Angel of Hearth and Home” or “The Fireside Angel”, subtitled: “The Triumph of Surrealism.”
Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst’s goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries.
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retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, “a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism.”
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