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In the 1930s Ende's paintings were condemned as decadent by the Nazi Germany government, and in 1940 he was conscripted into the German army as an operator of anti-aircraft artillery.
Edgar 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 made explicit in Michael Ende's book Der Spiegel im Spiegel (The Mirror in the Mirror), which is a collection of short stories based on (and printed alongside) Edgar Ende's surrealist works.
Edgar Ende died in 1965 of a myocardial infarction.