Museu Picasso
The Museu Picasso in Barcelona is an art museum that mainly shows young works by Pablo Picasso , which were created between 1895 and 1904. However, the collection also includes works from later creative periods, such as the Las Meninas series from 1957, which depicts variations of the painting of the same name by Velazquez .
history
The museum is located in five connected Gothic houses (city palaces) from the 13th to 15th centuries on Carrer Montcada in the La Ribera district : the Palau Aguilar , the Palau Baró de Castellet , the Palau Meca , the Casa Mauri and the Palau Finestres .
The foundation of the collection of the museum, which opened in 1963, is a foundation by Jaime Sabartés - a former secretary and friend of Picasso. At the time of the opening, it is interesting that Picasso's pictures in Franco's Spain were not shown for years and his name was not even allowed to be printed in the press. Only with the beginning of the tourist boom did Spain's cultural officials change this path and hoped that Picasso's name would be effective in advertising. The first Picasso exhibition took place in 1961. A Picasso museum soon followed, but it had to be opened under the name Sabartés Collection and was only allowed to be renamed later.
In 2007 the city named the Plaça Sabartés at the Picasso Museum between the Montcada and the Flassaders after Sabartés. In 2008 he was given a room named after him in the museum, which shows a Picasso portrait of him as a faun, dated 1946.
Web links
- Official website (Catalan, Spanish, English)
- Museum and collection on the city website
- The museum on welovebarcelona.de (German)
- The museum on irbarcelona.de (German)
- The museum on Lonely Planet (Engl.)
Coordinates: 41 ° 23 ′ 7.3 " N , 2 ° 10 ′ 50.1" E