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Pablo Picasso
8.5 x 11, 160 pages. Book contains 133 illustration, including 48 of Picasso's paintings in color, fully explained. Author is a professor of modern art at the University of Amsterdam. Some of the colorplates Self Portrait, Child with a dove, Gertrude Stein, Dryad and Women with a Fan.
- GenresArt
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1980
About the author
Hans Ludwig Cohn Jaffé
64 booksHans Ludwig Cohn Jaffe was born as the son of Jewish parents. He married Elly Jaffe Freem on August 16, 1947 in Lucerne. After his graduation at the Goethe-Gymnasium in January 1933 moved Hans Jaffe in connection with the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany, to Amsterdam. Here he studied art history and after his bachelor's degree assistant Johan Quirijn of Regteren Altena, curator at the Municipal Museum of Amsterdam. In 1936 his first catalog was created, titled Two centuries of British Art.
After completing his studies in 1938 he started his journalistic career at The Green Amsterdam. Jaffe also taught several years of art history at the Art School in New Amsterdam, a school that worked according to the methods of the German Bauhaus.
From 1940 to 1942 Jaffe did resistance work. In 1942 he fled to England via France and Switzerland. In 1945 he was commissioned to identify. Dutch art From 1947 to 1961, Jaffe attached to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, first as curator and later as Deputy Director.
After obtaining his PhD in 1956 on De Stijl in 1958 he was a private tutor at the University Of Amsterdam. From 1963 to 1976 he was director of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
After completing his studies in 1938 he started his journalistic career at The Green Amsterdam. Jaffe also taught several years of art history at the Art School in New Amsterdam, a school that worked according to the methods of the German Bauhaus.
From 1940 to 1942 Jaffe did resistance work. In 1942 he fled to England via France and Switzerland. In 1945 he was commissioned to identify. Dutch art From 1947 to 1961, Jaffe attached to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, first as curator and later as Deputy Director.
After obtaining his PhD in 1956 on De Stijl in 1958 he was a private tutor at the University Of Amsterdam. From 1963 to 1976 he was director of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
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July 16, 2024
Picasso famously said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Whether you admire his work or hate it, one cannot deny that the man was creative and endlessly at work to probe all things new.
This book gives you a good biographical section in the first forty-six pages and then color plates with explanations of some of his works in the next eighty pages.
The color reproductions are good and the biographical information is enlightening. What's not to like when you wish to study an easy-to-read summary of a famous artist?
My only quibble with the book is no information offered on the period during WWII when the artist lived and worked unmolested in Nazi-occupied Paris. Surely Hitler knew of Picasso's political leanings but still left him alone. Why? That itch will need to be satisfied with more research on my part.
I don't like or understand all his work but still consider Pablo Picasso the greatest visual artist of the 20th century.
Whether you admire his work or hate it, one cannot deny that the man was creative and endlessly at work to probe all things new.
This book gives you a good biographical section in the first forty-six pages and then color plates with explanations of some of his works in the next eighty pages.
The color reproductions are good and the biographical information is enlightening. What's not to like when you wish to study an easy-to-read summary of a famous artist?
My only quibble with the book is no information offered on the period during WWII when the artist lived and worked unmolested in Nazi-occupied Paris. Surely Hitler knew of Picasso's political leanings but still left him alone. Why? That itch will need to be satisfied with more research on my part.
I don't like or understand all his work but still consider Pablo Picasso the greatest visual artist of the 20th century.
May 17, 2017
Great overview of Picasso's art. Wonderful colourplates of many of his paintings, sketches and sculptures. More information about Picasso's life would have been helpful.
February 4, 2014
break down history of his life, ideals, love, and art... this is a complex book for a complex artist, with an broad history, and a section relating to each of his art works, and his ideals
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