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Barcelona Moderna: From Gaudí to Picasso
Germany's first exhibition on Catalan Modernisme, with some 160 works by Gaudí, a young Picasso and other Catalan artists, tracing Barcelona's rise as a European cultural hub between 1880 and 1914.
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You walk into a recreated Els Quatre Gats, the Barcelona café where the young Picasso first exhibited. The regulars painted each other as cyclists and drinkers. Casas painted himself and Pere Romeu on one tandem in 1897, so bring the friend you would trust to steer along the Isar.
The show covers 1880 to 1914 with around 160 paintings, graphics, objects, furniture and architectural models. It is the first in Germany devoted to Catalan Modernisme, the Barcelona counterpart to Jugendstil and Art Nouveau. Gaudí and a young Picasso are on the title; the walls also carry Casas, Rusiñol, Nonell, Mir and Anglada Camarasa. The Abendzeitung called it more complete than any Spanish museum could manage, and said Mir's Mallorca cliffs deserve more attention.
Tickets are €18 for adults and half price on Tuesdays. A free audio guide runs in German, English, Spanish and Catalan, so bring headphones. On the third Wednesday of the month (18 November, 20 January, 17 February) the hall stays open until 10pm.
Editor's pick
Ramon Casas painted himself and Pere Romeu on one tandem in 1897. It's the first German show on Catalan Modernisme: 160 works, many never shown here before, with Gaudí and a young Picasso among Casas, Rusiñol and Nonell.
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Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem (1897)
Ramon Casas paints himself and Pere Romeu on a single tandem.
Picasso, Head of a Young Woman (1906)
A woman's head Picasso painted in Barcelona in 1906, whose link to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon the Abendzeitung calls obvious.
Anglada Camarasa, Woman from Granada (c. 1914)
A nearly two-metre canvas covered almost edge to edge in ornament, where real flowers and the woven flowers of a mantilla start to blur.
Joaquim Mir, The Abyss, Mallorca (1901-04)
Cliffs and water off Mallorca turned into shapes of colour rather than light, a step toward abstraction in the Abendzeitung's reading.
Casas, Moulin de la Galette (1901/02)
Casas's memory of the Paris dance hall, painted for Barcelona's private Círculo del Liceo club.
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- Dates
- Evening Visits
- Out-Of-Town Guests
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Children aged 6 to 17 pay €4 and under-6s are free. A family pass for two adults and their children costs €36.
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- Barcelona Moderna: From Gaudí to PicassoCourtesy of Kunsthalle München
- Yalla. Arab-Jewish EncountersPhoto: Eva Jünger / Jewish Museum Munich
- Steina: PlaybackCourtesy of Haus der Kunst
- Kunsthalle MünchenMaximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa), CC BY-SA 2.5
- Munich ResidenzAvi1111 dr. avishai teicher / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MUCA – Museum of Urban and Contemporary ArtMailtosap / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jewish Museum MunichH-stt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum Five ContinentsStrubbl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0