Guernica was the ancient capital of the Basques – a group who had withstood the advances of the army since the Spanish Civil War begun in 1936. Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life, celebrated that same year in the city of Paris. During the early days of the Spanish Civil War, German pilots took part in the savage bombing of the Basque town of Guernica. A symbol of the suffering caused by the conflict, the attack prompted famed artist Pablo Picasso to paint a large canvas entitled Guernica which depicts the attack and destruction in abstract form. Der erste Kommandeur war Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle, gefolgt von Generalmajor Hellmuth Volkmann und ab November 1938 Oberst Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. The number of victims of the attack is around 1,654 people killed. With the end of General Francisco Franco's regime and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, the … T he German bombers appeared in the skies over Guernica in the late afternoon of April 26, 1937 and immediately transformed the sleepy Spanish market town into an everlasting symbol of the atrocity of war. The gray, black, and white painting, which is 3.49 meters tall and 7.76 meters across, portrays the suffering of people and animals wrought by violence and chaos. Guernica, Pablo Picasso’s 1937 oil-on-canvas masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War, is believed by some to be the single greatest war painting of all time. The nationalist government was helped by its allies, under the code name of Operation Rügen. With the help of Stepney trade unionists, keen to raise awareness of Spain’s civil war, in 1939 Guernica came to Whitechapel art gallery. One year before, on the 17th of July 1936, a bloody civil war that opposed the left wing republican government to a … In July 1936, a civil war began in Spain when a group who called themselves the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, used force to overturn the left-wing government of the Spanish republic. Der wohl bekannteste und zugleich umstrittendste Einsatz der „Legion Condor“ war zweifellos der Bombenangriff auf die baskische Stadt Guernica am 26.
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It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. April 1937, den Picasso in seinem gleichnamigen Werk vom Mai/Juni 1937 … Von Carola Frentzen, dpa
At the artist's request, the painting was kept out of Spain until the country returned to a republican government. One of Picasso's best known works, Guernica is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history. Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The region’s resilient stand was punished by Franco when he allowed the unprotected city to be bombed by Hitler’s air force. [2] Beyond being a massive allegorical depiction of the horrors of war, it can be argued Picasso’s painting purposefully served to mold spectators into proactive participants, encouraging both social action and policy decisions.