BELLAS ARTES

Un homenaje a los artistas más grandes del mundo y a las ciudades en las que vivieron y trabajaron. Observe las vistas a través de sus ojos. Vea cómo cobran vida sus obras maestras. Retroceda en el tiempo hasta el corazón de las grandes ciudades italianas, con los artistas más queridos del país como guías. Conozca a Caravaggio callejeando por la Roma del siglo xvii. Diríjase a la Venecia del siglo xviii, donde Canaletto pinta postales de gran tamaño para los turistas, o a la Florencia medieval, donde encontrará a Giotto trabajando en la Cappella Bardi.

Berggruen’s collection with more than one hundred masterpieces is a spectacular tribute to the foresight of this major player in the Paris art market during the second half of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1914, he went into exile in California on the eve of World War II. He became art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and assistant to the director of the San Francisco MoMA. After the war, Berggruen returned to Europe, first to Munich as a journalist, then to Paris where he worked at the UNESCO headquarters before becoming an art dealer specialized in the graphic arts of modern artists. He quickly established contacts within the Parisian cultural scene, meeting both the artists he would represent and the poets, dealers, historians, critics, and collectors of the day. Guided by his personal tastes, he built a solid collection of twentieth-century works now housed at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin spanning the careers of Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee and including Henri Matisse’s collages and Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures. The vast ensemble was exhibited at the Orangerie in 2024 and is housed in the Berggruen Museum/Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin.

La naturaleza nunca ha sido tan vibrante. Contemple la belleza y el poder del mundo natural, desde volcanes y mares tempestuosos hasta bosques resplandecientes y estrellas fugaces. Esta observación guiada de la naturaleza ofrece una forma totalmente nueva de contemplar el mundo. Un increíble compendio de la historia del mundo que nos rodea, contada a través de pinturas, dibujos, esculturas, textiles y artes decorativas.