Incidentally , Max fall in love to the bones with Leonora Carrington . Ernst took part in the film L ´ Age d ´ Or ( The golden age ) by another surrealist sublime : Luis Buñuel as director and with script by Buñuel himself and Salvador Dalí . What a set of universal talents ! Max Ernst had a realistic fixation . He loved women and women were not avoiding him . At times he had romantic relations with his students . There was the climactic point of his influence in the universal surrealism of Leonora Carrington ( Published in this magazine No . 3 June ) Leonora met Ernst in London and was her pupil . A few years later they met in Paris and did not need more than 2 or 3 brushstrokes to fall into an intense emotional relationship despite the tantrums , disfigures and big scenes that Marie Berthe ( Max ´ s wife ) was putting up at any moment . On the day she punched Max face with a porcelain vase , Leonora and Max rushed to hide in a villa in St . Martin dArcade . During World War II , Max , being German , was persecuted by the Nazis . After several arrests and escapes , he finally escaped captivity , and in Paris he met Peggy Guggenheim who , in the face of the threat of the German invasion , was engaged in rush buying , art for her collection . In the same tocken , they lived a wild romance . Along with other artists in 1941 , they took refuge in New York that was already becoming the Meca City of art , when the light in Paris was extinguished by the effects of the war . Peggy became the patroness of art that everyone knew , and also , Ernst › s third wife . Which was not very realistic either , because in 1946 he renounced Peggy › s influence and married Dorothea Tanning In 1953 he returned to Paris from where he continued working and marking a great influence in the surrealism from then to the present . He lived his last years in Seillans , to the south of France , until finding that the surrealism of his life became an irreversible reality : His death , 1 of April of 1976 .