With the exhibition Goya, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel is dedicating one of the most noteworthy individual shows outside Spain to the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) from 10 October 2021. Until 23 January 2022, visitors will be able to view the work of this important pioneer of modern art in over 70 paintings and other drawings and graphic works. For the first time, paintings from Spanish private collections will be exhibited together with works from the most renowned European and US-American museums as well as from private collections. Created in cooperation with the Spanish Museo Nacional del Prado, the exhibition aims to invite visitors to an encounter with both the beautiful and intangible.
Born on 30 March 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a painter and graphic artist of the Rococo and Romantic periods. In his works, he blurred the boundaries between reality and fantasy by depicting saints and criminals or witches and demons, among others, and addressed opposites and irresolvable contradictions with reason and unreason as well as dreams and nightmares. Goya is a key figure in modern art and was an inspiration for many artists who followed him. He died on 16.04.1828 in Bordeaux, France.
