Picasso, Pablo - 1954 - Willkommen beim Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm (poster and program)

 

Theatre Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
poster Willkommen beim Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm
motif: Picasso's design for the scarf of the French delegation to the World Festival of Youth and Students in the year 1951 in East Berlin

1954
colour offset-lithograph with dark brown colour on thin paper
118 cm x 83 cm
horizontal fold, small and restored tears at the borders, some slight visible creases in the middle field,
but regarding the age and the thin paper generally in good condition



added:
Program "Der kaukasische Kreidekreis", Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm, 1954, with picture of the poster and reader's letters "Picasso-Plakat Im Meinungsstreit",
20,5 cm x 10 cm or 20,5 cm x 20 cm, good condition (see additional pictures)

order no. 23237

Helene Weigel, director of the Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm, wrote to Picasso about this attractive poster in the letter from 15th of May 1954,
see Friedrich 2021, p.151.



The here offered copy of the poster has been shown in the exhibition "Picasso Shared and Divided. The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany", Cologne Museum Ludwig 2021.

catalogue raisonné:

Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Werkverzeichnis der Picasso Plakate. Paris 1970, 60
Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Pablo Picasso. Plakate 1923-1973, Werkverzeichnis München 1981 (dtv), 90 (wrong date)
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016

Friedrich, Julia (ed.): Picasso Shared and Divided. The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany, Cologne 2021, p.148 and p.157