Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Enigma of Hitler
Image View:
Detail, tiny group of people out on a beach
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS11146
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1939 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
95 cm (height) x 141 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; still life; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; World War, 1939-1945
Description:
The 1930s saw a new addition to Dalí’s themes relating to Surrealism, this time the historic figure of Adolf Hitler, who the artist identified with Maldoror, inspiring works like The Enigma of Hitler, from 1939. For the Surrealists, who had never been comfortable with the brazen way in which Salvador Dalí exhibited his sexual obsessions in public, Dalí’s representation of Hitler was beyond the pale, and it was decided to expel him from the group led by André Breton. So Dalí left Europe to settle in the United States. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-EOH-A09
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Enigma of Hitler