Around 1900, Barcelona developed into one of the most dynamic cultural centres in Europe. Amid industrial upheaval, the city's rapid growth and social conflicts, Catalan Modernisme emerged here, encompassing architecture, painting, design and literature. The exhibition sheds light on artistic developments between 1880 and 1914. Some 140 paintings, prints, objects, furniture and architectural models show the stylistic range of this era and place them within Barcelona's social and historical context.
Barcelona is a total work of art made up of architecture, art and joie de vivre. The Kunsthalle München is showing part of what makes the city what it is in the exhibition "Barcelona moderna. Von Gaudí bis Picasso". The approximately 140 exhibits focus on the period from 1880-1914. The architectural historian Dr.