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Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world.
The bombing is the subject of the anti-war painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso, which was commissioned by the Spanish Republic. It was also depicted in a woodcut by the German artist Heinz Kiwitz, [9] who was later killed fighting in the International Brigades, [10] and by René Magritte in the painting Le Drapeau Noir. [11]
The bombing of Guernica by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria was deliberately chosen to occur on a Monday (April 26, 1937), because it was known that the Basque people who lived outside of Guernica proper would travel into town for the Market Day, thus affording the pilots of the German and Italian aircraft the ...
He used his art to reflect on war, peace and politics in a way that enabled people to open their eyes and gain new insight to such prevalent topics. Today in history: Picasso is born Skip to main ...
The paintings, Picasso's "Tête" and Chagall's "L’homme en prière", were stolen from an art collector in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2010 and are worth $900.000. Stolen Picasso, Chagall paintings ...
On 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Gernika was the scene of the "Bombing of Gernika" by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe. The Germans were attacking to support the efforts of Francisco Franco to overthrow the Basque Government and the Spanish Republican government.
A painting thought to be a Picasso original was found over 60 years ago by a junk dealer in the basement of a villa on the island of Capri, Italy Italian art experts think the painting could ...
The bombing took place when Adolf Hitler ordered the German airforce to bomb the Basque town on behalf of Franco. [5] The painting was a personal protest after seeing newspaper photographs of the event. [6] In January 1937, Picasso had been asked to produce a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition.