Six Frida Kahlo paintings come home in Baden-Baden

Six additional paintings have joined the permanent Frida Kahlo exhibition “Pain and Passion” in Baden-Baden.
The exhibition, which opened on February 2009 in Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, shows the most complete collection of Frida Kahlo paintings ever.
The 111 paintings, unique in the world, are hand painted replicas licensed from © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008.

“Very ugly” is among the newly arrived paintings, this is an attempt Frida Kahlo made to paint in the fresco technique her husband Diego Rivera mastered. Unhappy with the result Frida first smeared the fresco with words such as “very ugly”, “oh boy”, then threw it away. The damaged fresco was rescued by a friend. Another painting is the famous “My Dress Hangs There” , the only painting Frida Kahlo made with multimedia (oil and collage). Both paintings have been extremely complex to replicate, especially the reproduction of newspaper cuttings of 1933 which Frida Kahlo used for the collage.

Among the six paintings, there are also two self-portraits Frida Kahlo made shortly before dieing in 1954: “Self-portrait with Stalin” and “Self Portrait with a Portrait of Diego on the Breast and Maria Between the Eyebrows” (location of original painting is unknown).
“These two paintings have an enormous biographical meaning, and are a “must-have” for a monographic Frida Kahlo Museum as ours, and a “must-see” for the museum visitors and Frida Kahlo lovers all over the world” said H.-J. Gehrke, co-founder and Museum Director.

These paintings enrich the already extensive Frida Kahlo collection in Baden-Baden, they offer a better understanding of the development of Frida Kahlo’s diversified styles, use of colours and paint brush application over the years.

The paintings have found their place on the Museum rooms, and are well integrated in the reconstructed Casa Azul with the garden of a Mexican courtyard, a 12 feet high fountain, around 68 cactus plants, an Aztec pyramid, pre-columbian figures, Tehuana clothes and filigree jewels as Frida Kahlo used to wear.
The new six paintings and the entire exhibition can be seen in Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Baden-Baden as of September 21 2009.

The Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is a privately owned art museum dedicated to showing monographic works.
The Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund exihibits at least 70% of the works of only one artist at the time, The objective of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is to offer the visitors a complete view of the entire work of one artist, in this way it is possible to follow the artist’s development, to discover the different phases the painter goes through in his/her life: from lack of direction to new inspiration.

The Vision of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is to offer the visitors a cultural experience that covers all the senses, and an environment that touches not only the eyes of the visitors, but their minds, and above all their hearts.
Every decision made in the creation of the museum was driven by two elements:
- respect for the visitors, and
- respect for the artists.

In addition to exhibiting the artworks, the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund shows the environment of the life of the painter: clothes, jewelry, and the entire context in which the artist lived and produced his/her paintings. This 360°view of the llife and work of one artist allows the visitors to immerse themselves totally into the artworks and to better understand the artist.

The founders of the Art Museum are Hans-Jürgen Gehrke and Dr. Mariella C. Remund. Both are art patrons, collectors, and passionate art historians. Both have spent over 25 years in executive positions in multinational corporations and academic organizations in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, USA, Spain, South America and China.

Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund GmbH
Industrie Strasse 9a
76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
Tel #: +49 7221 9711899
Presscontact Person: Dr. Mariella C. Remund
Kustmuseum-Gehrke-Remund@gmx.de
www.Kunstmuseum-Gehrke-Remund.de

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