Bombing of Guernica

When Guernica, a city in the Basque Country of northern Spain, is bombed on 26 April 1937 by air-raid squadrons of Germany’s „Condor Legion“, the entire world reacts with horror. Ca. 2,000 people – mostly civilians – are victims of the air raid. The event inspires the artist Pablo Picasso to create his famous painting „Guernica“, which is shown for the first time three months later at the opening of the World Fair in Paris. This work of art will become a symbol for the brutality of modern war and the suffering it inflicts on civilian populations.

© 2005 Pablo Picasso - Guernica (1937) - An image of pain and brutalty depicts the fascist bombing of the town Guernica in Spain