"A PICASSO"

Tuesday November 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Event Description

The intriguing stage play “A PICASSO” by Jeffrey Hatcher takes place in 1941 and conflates numerous interrogations by the Nazis during their occupation of Paris into one re-imagined meeting between Pablo Picasso and a somewhat atypical Nazi—a woman, Ursula Fischer, whose career as an Art Historian was detoured into service as an adjunct to the German ministry of culture. The subject--The search for what the Third Reich considered Degenerate Art.


“A PICASSO” plays at the Angela Peralta Theater in San Miguel de Allende;
October 28th – 7 pm & October 29th - 3 pm.
November 4th - 7 pm & November 5th – 3 pm.


DEGENERATE ART was a term used by the Nazi party to describe any artwork that did not fall in line with their ideals. This included most kinds of modern art including Expressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism, Cubism, and Surrealism as well as art that was produced by Jewish artists or that presented the Nazi regime in a negative light.


The term came to prominence in the 1930s, when thousands of artworks deemed “degenerate” were seized from museums and private collections. Some of these were put on display in an attempt to inflame public opinion against modernism which was claimed to be “un-German”, and as having Jewish or Communist links.

Later, some pieces were sold to fund the Nazi party, whilst many others, including works by famous artists such as Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse were destroyed. Many artists were actively persecuted, losing their jobs, their livelihoods and, in some, cases their lives.

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