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Exhibition: “Picasso. Window to the world”

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Exhibition: “Picasso. Window to the world”

Pablo Picasso was a Jack of all trades, the world is at your feet. Still, there are aspects in his work, which are little known: The Spaniard has a Passion for window.

He designed it on canvas and matchbooks, created it as a view of the outside world and as a point of view on itself: The window was for Pablo Picasso’s lifelong motif. It focuses on the See, for the Spanish classics of the Modern age (1881-1973), it became the Symbol of the painting at all. This has so far been rather unknown aspect of the art of the Grand master dedicated the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg according to its own information the world’s first exhibition. Under the title “Picasso. Window to the world” are there from this Saturday until 16. May, about 40 paintings, drawings and graphic works.

The window runs like a thread through Picasso’s art

Around 50 Picasso pictures by photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Edward Quinn, and Brassai complement the presentation. Lender are international collections such as the Picasso museums in Barcelona and Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. “The window is in Picasso the interface of the artist and the world,” said Ortrud Westheider, Director of the house. In times of upheaval and reorientation, whether he ever again returned. The “window” have all periods have survived in his work, otherwise, like divided, such as in the blue or the Cubist Phase.

so/ (dpa)

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