Cologne: Christmas tea & museum tour

What  do we as­so­ci­ate with Pab­lo Pi­cas­so? And what as­so­ci­a­tions  with him did the Ger­man peo­ple have in mind dur­ing the post-war  years, when he was at the height of his fame? Far more than we do: This  is the main idea of the ex­hi­bi­tion, which re­veals a for­got­ten  breadth, ten­sion, and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of th­ese ap­pro­pri­a­tions. It  deals not on­ly with the artist, but with his au­di­ence, which  in­ter­pret­ed Pi­cas­so’s art in very dif­fer­ent ways in the  cap­i­tal­ist West and in the so­cial­ist East. The Ger­man Pi­cas­so  was di­vid­ed, but this di­vi­sion al­so sti­m­u­lat­ed the re­cep­tion:  Be­cause ev­ery­one ques­tioned his art, it had some­thing to say for  ev­ery­one. The  ex­hi­bi­tion fea­tures po­lit­i­cal works, such as the paint­ing  Mas­sacre in Ko­rea (1951) from the Musée Pi­cas­so in Paris. Th­ese are  shown along­side some 150 ex­hibits that re­flect the im­pact of  Pi­cas­so’s work.

We cordially invite you to a guided tour in English exploring “Picasso Shared and Divided” at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, on Saturday, 11 December 2021.

We will meet at the Foyer of Museum Ludwig, Hein­rich-Böll-Platz, 50667 Köln at 2 pm (15 min ahead of the tour), pending final confirmation with the museum. Please register by Tuesday, 7 December 2021. We encourage you to sign-up early, as we allocate places on a first-come, first-served basis.  

Kindly note: This event is a "2G" event, i.e. vaccination against Covid19 or proof of recovery is required, even if local regulations might be less strict at the time.

The guided tour is free of charge for paid-up members of the German Friends of LSE. The participation fee for non-members is €10, which we ask you to transfer to our bank account DE57300700240612018200, reference: Museum Ludwig 2021. You can also pay by Paypal to paypal.me/GermanFriendsofLSE. Please also state Museum Ludwig 2021 and your name as reference. 

Please note, places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.    

We are looking forward to seeing you in Cologne.