I See Through my LeNs: Museum Berggruen--PICASSO....Berlin, Germany

Heinz Berggruen’s collection, opened to the public in 1996, is one of Berlin’s most popular modern art galleries, situated opposite the Schloss Charlottenberg.
More than 100 exhibits of Picasso's work form the centrepiece of the collection.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 –
8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

All facets of his work are represented in this museum: beginning with a drawing from his student days in 1897 and ending with works he painted in 1972, one year before he died.

As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

When I was still teaching, we studied Pablo Picasso ..and my students did their own interpretation of Picasso's Cubism. This is why I get to admire his paintings.

Berggruen continued to purchase works after the museum's opening in 1996, including Picasso's important 1909 painting Houses on the Hill (Horta de Ebro) from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A total of 165 works were transferred from Berggruen to the PCHF in the 2000 sale.