Picasso's life and his loved ones - especially in relation to Picasso's relationship with and to women an endless topic, on which serious artists and excited feminists, outraged petty bourgeois and imaginative cookbook authors, confused social scientists and envious boulevard journalists from probably every conceivable viewing angle.
The artist lifestyle and his relationships with women have already been dissected thoroughly enough, and it is probably not that important who shares why and which bed. Nevertheless, an overall view of Picasso does not quite avoid taking a look at his lifestyle and love - both are puzzle parts of the " People Picassos " , both also influenced his art.
Therefore, a sketch in 7 scenes follows the private side of the artist - an intensely lived life.
Scene 7: calmer in old age?
If you go like this, you can send it ahead, even the 90 Picasso on the 90, a nice swing testosterone is said to have conjured up pointed -bearded musketeers into the pictures, which small cupidos pipe smoke amorous adventures shout ...
Francoise Gilot separates from him, at the age of 70, that Picasso cannot leave it.

1951 - 1953: Geneviève Laporte - a gentle interlude with quite gratifying consequences
When the relationship with Francoise Gilot became increasingly difficult, Picasso met an "old friend" again: Geneviève Laporte interviewed Picasso as a 17-year-old student in 1944, for her school newspaper in Paris.
Fresh back from a stay in the United States, she happened to meet Picassos in 1951 and started an affair with the artist around half a century. Together they spent a secret summer in Saint Tropez, in which Picasso made drawings and paintings from her.
After Francoise Gilot left him in 1953, Picasso wanted to build on these nice six weeks and suggested that Geneviève suggested to his (Gilots) villa on the French Riviera. What Geneviève Laporte thankfully rejected, she married Olivier de Pierrebourg in 1959; Geneviève Laporte de Pierrebourg made a name for herself as a writer, filmmaker and poet.
Laporte also wrote a book about her time with Picasso , which is probably not necessarily reported by a quiet beach holiday in Saint Tropez (Geneviève Laporte, "Si Tard Le Soir, Le Soleil Brille,": Pablo Picasso " , published in 1973 at Plon, which means" If the evening gets tired, the sun is already shining "). Above all, however, she had 20 works that Picasso had painted at at an auction in June 2005 in Paris, which Picasso had painted, she brought in the friendly 1.54 million euros.
With this money she founded the "Genevieve Laporte de Pierrebourg, Pour La Defense de la Nature et des Animaux" (Genevievieve Laporte de Pierrebourg, for the protection of nature and animals, more for the foundation at anesterel.com ), here an affair has really proven deeper meaning.
Links to the pictures:
- jonetlazo.files.wordpress.com/ - "Hoja en blanco Genevieve"
- sapergalleries.com/ - known drawing by Geneviève Laporte
1953 - 1973: Jacqueline Roque - Last dear and second wife
friendship between Picasso and Jacqueline Roque , the seller in the ceramic workshop, developed It quickly became more, Jacqueline will spend his last two decades with Picasso. In March 1961 the two married Jacqueline Roque had just turned 34, Picasso was 79.
In the relationship with Jacqueline, Picasso rediscovered his joy in portrait painting , he painted over 400 portraits of her in the long period of living together.
Links to the pictures:
- webartakademy.com/ - Photo Picasso and Mrs. Jacqueline after the secret marriage in 1961
- webartakademy.com/ - Photo by Jacqueline Picasso, 1962
Jacqueline Picasso remains alone and, without her husband, should not have become as happy with her further life as you could trust someone who has just inherited art in the value of six-digit amounts and should take care of the huge legacy of Picasso (up to the help of the Picasso Museum in Paris).
It is written a lot about how "the little French woman has devoted her existence to the ego center, gave him strength to the age of 91 and endured his bizarre fears in symbiotic.
The mental cannibal Picasso has absorbed her energies with its absolutist manner, after his death it collapses her central star, until after opening the Picasso Museum Paris, the completion of her life determination, in her villa, with a pistol, shooting. "
Such texts certainly come from the pen more of men with narcissism dreams, or from women who (1986) practiced at the time, especially for their first volumes of a "bite-Mich-in-gray" literature, but also the serious among the rapporteurs did not come up with the idea that real and deep grief lead to a depressive illness and-not recognized by the environment-with a suicide can end.
Even more unfriendly is written about Picasso's relationships with women, it was portrayed as a monster where you have to take revenge; As a painter who paints with his women's blood; An urge for child women and sometimes an urge to men and many others are subject to him, which stamps the artist in the eyes of intolerant petty bourgeois forever to the "heartless genius".
Questionable whether and how someone can judge that did not live with Picasso - the pure facts in the summary read in any case:
Fernand Olivier was of the same age, at 24 maybe they met a little early for a lifelong bond, but the relationship lasted 7 years and was by no means abandoned by Picasso quickly and easily. At 31, Picasso Eva Gouel , whom he is said to have loved, met, the relationship ended tragic for his partner despite the strong use of Picasso, with Eva's death of tuberculosis.
Picasso was looking for a woman again and met the 27-year-old Gabrielle Depeyre , who, however, rejected his marriage proposal and left him after a year to marry her fiance in 1917. A little later, Picasso was 35, followed an interlude with the 23-year-old artist Irène Lagut , also one year. What has been handed down about this relationship does not make the impression that Irène Picasso loved or took very seriously.
At 36, Picasso now meets Olga Chochlowa , 26 years old, suitable and willing to live a marriage and a bourgeois life with him, but the woman quickly becomes too demanding (and probably too narrow -minded), all of life with her too tight.
The 46-year-old Picasso in 1927 competed with an almost 30 year younger, Marie-Thérèse Walter was almost or no longer a minor (the exact time circumstances are controversial) when she met Picasso and received a relationship with him. Marie - Thérèse lived for the first 8 years as Picasso's secret lover when she got pregnant, left Olga Picasso, who now officially lived with Marie - Thérèse.
Until in 1936 he met the exact opposite of the gentle, blonde Marie-Thérèse in Dora Maar and fell in love with her ... Picasso continued to support Marie-Thérèse and, according to Françoise Gilot, still spent one day a week with her and the daughter Maya together.
Dora Maar kept the relationship with the approximately 25 years younger, as a theatrical dark beauty, kept 8 years, a time of open rivalry between Marie -Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, from which Picasso stayed as far as possible. Maybe until it got too much for him ... In any case, the 62-year-old turned to a 21-year-old.
The relationship with the 40 -year -old French artist Francoise Gilot should last 10 years and produce two children until Françoise separated from Picasso in 1953, as the only of his women. After a small interlude with the 25-year-old and thus 45 years younger Geneviève Laporte , who rejected to move to his house to his house to the French Riviera, Picasso met the woman in 1953 in 26-year-old ceramic seller Jacqueline Roque , with whom he was supposed to share the time of his age.
He was 72 at the time when he turned 80, the two married, Jacqueline Roque remained his wife until Picasso's death in 1973 .
One can judge such a way to do a man as quite normal, he has just started a love at young age that could not last for time, a woman looking for marrying and married a woman that was not very well suited to him after the tragic loss of love .
After the failure of the marriage, with a deal with his relationships with his relationships, a lover after the other who was always willing, bite to granite in between and then finally found a woman who might love him and may have been excessively empathetic and therefore (gladly) supported life at his side ...
From this perspective, there is - a little further - even a very common example of a successful man's relationship life today. Who really chooses the ever younger woman at his side as jewelry - and that is not despised and envied because of this woman, and even because of his hard on or over the edge of legality.
It is even available in different types in our society: the interrogating (media star), which - because - because unchecked - in ever faint -free “money workers” (who works on the stock exchange, in a bank, for an investment fund), the also unchecked owner of a very successful (i.e. supported by many buyers) who manages to pay no tax at all, nowhere, nowhere For probably not a single society - and the little dumplings at their side seem to grow to the increasing level ...
Certainly, these people are not envied by the smarter part of our society - but it is still common today to treat the entrepreneur as a great man who has the fourth woman and has accumulated assets by exploiting his workers than the worker who has a good relationship with his wife and takes part in this exploitation to secure the care of his family.
You can see the career of Picasso's relationships very differently - maybe Picasso has been looking for a real companion over the years, did the Jacqueline only found and worshiped women (who therefore grieves around him so violently around him)?
If women who had to deal with Picasso commented themselves, it can sound quite flattering:
"In her life she met no other man who was so gracious and respectful to her. He was caring and kind to her, gave her courage and gave her confidence and strength.",
Says Sylvette David , the French woman, painted more than 60 portraits of Picasso in 1954, later about him ( SZ Magazin - Picasso adored me ).
Also the Swiss art dealer Angela Rosengart , who had already met Picasso as a young girl in the cooperation in her father's art shop, expresses her behavior towards women completely positively:
"She never experienced Picasos as a macho and selfish person and thus described this in her book" Visits at Picasso ". Jacqueline Picasso, who was very friends with her, has never commented off about her husband. On the contrary, he worshiped women and always behaved very respectfully towards them. ”
( “Visits to Picasso” , impressions with photos of Siegfried and Angela Rosengart, text by Angela Rosengart, Lucerne, spring 1973 SRAR).
picture of Picasso in terms of dealing with women , you could of course read even more extensively (although not necessarily in a friendlier tone) with your women:
Fernand Olivier, nine years with Picasso . Memories from 1905 to 1913. Foreword by P. Leautaud. Transferred by Gertrud Droz-Rüegg. Zurich, Diogenes 1957 (without ISBN, that will only be available from 1972);
Fernand Olivier, Picasso and his friends. Memories from 1905–1913. Diogenes Verlag, new edition 1989, ISBN 978-3-257-21748-3; Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso, Diogenes Verlag, 23rd edition 1987.
You can also look at Picassos Women in action, shown on stage by Dafne-Maria Fiedler (Eva, Olga, Dora, Jaqueline) and Barbara Geiger (Fernande, Gabrielle, Marie-Thérèse, Francoise, play by Brian Mcavera, Head of Barbara Geiger).
When there is talk of the project of "Pablo, the dazzling person" , and the "exciting, exciting existence next to" Picasso and "its cruelty" is confident, it is confident that all common clichés about Picasso's dealings with women have been processed here.
There is a sample in the following video, you can find the future dates from the website (November 25, 2014: 23.02.2015 Wallgraben Theater, Freiburg, Part I; 2.03.2015 Part II).
"Picasso's Women" provides a rather exciting overview of Picasso's works, related to the respective relationship :
Picasso's right quote to assess the contradictory sludge bass with the women may be a little malicious when it comes to the simplicity of his approach with the sentences
"I need you and I am tired without having to get along. And because I can't get along without you, you have to come to me"
reproduces (found on www.literaturundkunst.net/picassos-frauen ).
A little more malicious, but fitting: "Women love the simple things of life, for example men" (a quote that, in addition to the one about the matter with women, is also likely to be attributed to many others, which is very confused, slightly cynical writer W. Somerset Maugham.
If you feel the need to learn more about "Picasso without women" after reading 7 sketches about " Picasso and the Women"-the following articles are about Picasso's life and his art: The "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-A long life for art" gives an overview that "Art-O-Gram: Picasso-Born" Beginning, in the "Art-O-Gram: Picasso - an artist and three wars ” are the terrible shadows that darkened people in the last century. The "Art-O-Gram: Picasso-famous art and her secret" tries to take the trail of this secret, which then follow the "Art-O-Gram:" Picasso-a guarantee for top ranking " and the" Art-O-Gramm: Picasso today ".
If, after reading so much, you no longer feel like dealing with art, you could take a detour to www.artsology.com - there is "Picasso to play", around a dozen games in which Picasso plays a (not necessarily artistically sensible) role, can be played online right away.