Max Ernst is one of my favorite surrealist artists, and the work portrayed above brings happiness every time I see it. (That's the head of a bird emerging from the human's forehead.) I am not really sure what Ernst was attempting to say with the work; perhaps it was an oblique reference to the headdress worn by Egyptian pharaohs, I do not know. I do know from a recent exhibition [1] that Ernst was strongly influenced by the art and symbolism of ancient Egypt. The image below, captured at that exhibition then transported miraculously to the Westerland Düne, unites a featured work from the exhibition with the Kalabasha Gate from the museum. Incidentally, do you see the gigantic offshore wind farm?