Berggruen Museum
Modern art collection built by a Jewish exile and Picasso's friend, given to his native city.
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This guide to the Berggruen Museum in Berlin follows Heinz Berggruen, a young Jewish writer who fled the city in 1936 and later opened a small bookshop on Paris's Ile Saint-Louis. There the poet Tristan Tzara introduced him to a struggling painter down the street, Pablo Picasso, and the two became close friends. Over the following decades Berggruen quietly built one of the finest private collections of modern art, buying dozens of Picassos alongside Klee, Matisse and Giacometti. Stand opposite Charlottenburg Palace and listen for how that friendship, and that bookshop, shaped what hangs in these rooms today.
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