Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Century

FROM THE PUBLISHER

One name in the history of 20th century art stands out over all at others: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "no one can touch Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as Guenica- from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career, through his cubist and classicist phases, his formal experiments of the Thirties, and on to his later involvement with politics in art.

Ingo F. Walther was born in 1940 in Berlin and studied Medieval Studies, Literature and Art History in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He has published widely on literature and art, and presently lives in Alling near Munich.