Swiss exhibition explores artistic dialogue between Kirchner and Picasso

In the Swiss mountain town of Davos, works by Pablo Picasso will be shown alongside pieces by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner for the first time. The director of the Kirchner Museum says it is one of the institution’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “People often say Picasso’s visual language is so dominant that everything else fades into the background,” the Kirchner Museum’s director, Katharina Beisiegel, told the Keystone‑SDA news agency at a press briefing on Friday. “With this exhibition, we show how striking and how equal this pairing can be.” Around a hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by the two artists are on show at the museum. The director and curator stressed that the aim was not to determine which of the two was the greater artist. The idea for the exhibition goes back to a wish Ernst Ludwig Kirchner voiced in 1933, five years before his death, when he said he hoped for an international show “where ...