short biography

Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Blasco y Picasso, born 1881 in Malaga / Spain, died 1973 in Mougins near Cannes / France) was a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, ceramist, poet and one of the most prolific, influential and innovative protagonists of the 20th century. Together with Georges Braque and Juan Gris he became the founder of cubism. Picasso's extensive work is characterized by a variety of sometimes contradictory art movements: realistic, classical, cubist, archaic, surrealistic and abstract representations were produced one after the other, sometimes in parallel. His wives and cohabitees, such as Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque, often themselves important artists, were frequently models for his work. Created in 1937 for the Spanish pavilion at the World's Fair in Paris, the monumental "Guernica" is a protest against the destruction of the Basque town of Guernica by an air raid of the German Legion Condor and is a manifesto against the war at all. Picasso studied at the Art Academy in Barcelona and at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.

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Galleria d´Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona ARTIUM MUSEOA, Vitoria-Gasteiz ° Abbot Hall Art Gallery Aichi Prefectural University - Satellite Gallery SA・KURA, Nagoya Albertina, Wien Aomori Museum of Art Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Arts Club of Chicago Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Baker Museum, Naples Ball State University Museum of Art Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Boca Raton Museum of Art Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick British Museum, London Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston Centre Pompidou Paris Centre Pompidou-Metz Cincinnati Art Museum Columbus Museum of Art ° Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington Courtauld, London Currier Museum of Art, Manchester New Hampshire DIA Detroit Institute of Arts DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham Dartmouth College / Hopkins Center & Hood Museum, Hanover Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca Falmouth Art Gallery Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / UK . Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles Frye Art Museum, Seattle Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin ° GAM Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Milan George Economou Collection, Marousi Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno Graves Gallery, Sheffield Grey Art Museum, New York Haifa Museum of Art Hamburger Kunsthalle Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter ° Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden Hiroshima Museum of Art Holstebro Kunstmuseum Honolulu Academy of Arts IMU University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Indianapolis Museum of Art International Centre of Graphic Art, Ljubljana Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jeu de Paume, Paris Johannesburg Art Gallery . K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Katzen Arts Center, Washington ° Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Klingspor Museum, Offenbach Kreeger Museum, Washington Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Kulturforum Berlin/Gemäldegalerie/Kunstbibliothek/Kupferstichkabinett ' Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunsthalle Bielefeld Kunsthalle Bremen Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl Kunsthaus Zürich Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Bern Kunstmuseum Den Haag Kunstmuseum Heidenheim Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz ° Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art LAM Lille LUDWIGMUSEUM Koblenz La Boverie, Liège Landesmuseum Mainz Leeds Art Gallery Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Ludwig Museum St. Petersburg Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo . MACBA Barcelona ' MACCSI - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sofía Imber, Caracas MAMCS - Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg ° MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUSMA Matera Mart Rovereto & Galleria Civica Trento Menil Collection, Houston Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Miami University Art Museum, Oxford / Ohio Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu . Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Milwaukee Art Museum Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Modern, Fort Worth Moderna Museet Malmö Moderna Museet Stockholm Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Moscow Museum of Modern Art Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais Museen Heilbronn - Museum im Deutschhof / Kunsthalle Vogelmann Museo Botero, Bogota Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Museo Picasso, Malaga Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museo Tamayo, Mexico City ° Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires Museo del Novecento, Milan Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro (temporarily closed) Museu Picasso - Barcelona Museu da Chácara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro Museum Berggruen, Berlin Museum Brandhorst, München Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen Museum Würth, Künzelsau Museum am Dom, Würzburg Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb ' Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, Toyama Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Museums Sheffield Musée Cantini, Marseille Musée Jenisch, Vevey Musée Maillol Musée National d´Histoire et d´Art, Luxemburg Musée Picasso, Antibes Musée Unterlinden, Colmar Musée de Grenoble Musée de l´Orangerie, Paris Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes Musée d´Art Moderne de Céret Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne Musée d´Ixelles Musée d´arts de Nantes Musée national Picasso, Paris Musée national Picasso, Vallauris NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Nasher Museum of Art, Durham Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens National Gallery Prague National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery of Iceland National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin New Orleans Museum of Art Newport Street Gallery, London Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY Chichester Petit Palais, Genf Philadelphia Museum of Art Phillips Collection, Washington Phoenix Art Museum Picasso Museum - Luzern Pinakothek der Moderne, München Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce, Paris Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm Punta della Dogana, Venice Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville San Diego Museum of Art Santa Barbara Museum of Art Sara Hildén Art Museum Schaulager, Münchenstein Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh Sculpture International Rotterdam Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Smithsonian Institution, Washington Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Speed Art Museum, Louisville Sprengel Museum, Hannover Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatsgalerie Stuttgart State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg / RUS ° Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Städel Museum, Frankfurt Sweet Briar College Art Gallery Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Tate Collection Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Art Institute of Chicago The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The Hunt Museum, Limerick The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) The Whitworth, Manchester Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven ' Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (VMFA) Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown . Wright Museum of Art, Beloit Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw documenta Kassel ms Muzeum Sztuki Lodz n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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