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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the ALBERTINA Museum commemorates Pablo Picasso – the greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century:  

In this exhibition, the ALBERTINA Museum is showing the work of the Spanish artistic genius. Over 60 masterpieces of painting, drawing, etching, lithography and ceramics.  

Picasso’s art does not distinguish between painting with a brush, drawing with a pen, the line of the pen, cutting in linoleum, scratching the copper plate or shaping the mass. Everything is elevated to art by him, his work eludes all logic and prediction; because with it, the history of the development of art disintegrates. The parameters that fulfilled art are discarded with him and through his work. The world agrees: without Picasso, art would have taken a different course.

Even in his old age, he creates works of immeasurable power. At the end of the exhibition there is not only the hymn to life in the Dionysian fantasies and Arcadian utopias, but also Picasso’s attempt to paint and create against the passing of time: each individual work is dated to the day, as if it had to bear witness to life in the moment. In 1973 he himself succumbed to the myth of immortality, the world mourns him, 50 years after his death, the world celebrates the man who became the archetype of the modern artist during his lifetime.

This is the ALBERTINA Museum’s third Picasso exhibition: after the presentation of his late work in ‘Painting Against Time’ (2006) and the exhibition on the political Picasso in ‘Peace and Freedom’ (2010), the ALBERTINA Museum is now showing works by Pablo Picasso from its own collection. On the occasion of the anniversary of his death, this exhibition focuses on the great Spaniard – with a selection of 60 paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics from a total collection of almost 150 works by him held by the ALBERTINA Museum.