Overview

• The traveling exhibition opened in Hamburg after stops in Paris, Brussels and Madrid and runs through October 12, 2025.
• It presents about 230 works by key Surrealists—including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Paul Klee—alongside roughly 70 German Romantic masterpieces by artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge.
• Juxtapositions like Max Ernst’s 'Ein schöner Morgen' (1965) with Runge’s 1808 'Der Morgen' reveal both movements’ analogies and contrasts.
• The show highlights how Surrealism and German Romanticism each challenged accepted reality and aimed to transform individual and societal perspectives.
• Director Alexander Klar emphasizes the exhibition’s focus on cross-era dialogues that trace Surrealism’s enduring impact on art, literature and film.