Dorothea Tanning
‘MAX ERNST TO DOROTHEA TANNING: NETWORKS OF SURREALISM PROVENCES FROM THE ULLA AND HEIRNER PIETZSCH COLLECTION’, NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, BERLIN
17 October 2025 – 1 February 2026
One hundred years after the ‘First Surrealist Manifesto’ (1924), and in cooperation with the Zentralarchiv (central archive), the Neue Nationalgalerie presents Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection. The focus is on both the histories of the art works and on life stories of Surrealism’s central artists, dealers, and collectors.
With artists including Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Dorothea Tanning, the exhibition showcases the findings of a multi-year research project on the provenances of artworks from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, which was realised jointly with the State of Berlin. The exhibition not only maps out the manifold paths taken by Surrealist artworks predominantly during the 1930s and 1940s, but also sheds light on how historical circumstances, personal relationships, and social networks contributed to the spread of the international movement.