Karl Marx goes back to his home town in Germany on the day the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund celebrates its 4th anniversary

The replica of the Frida Kahlo painting: “Marxism will give Health to the Sick”, (1954) has left the Frida Kahlo exhibition “Viva La Vida” as it has been asked on loan by the Trier Stadtmuseum in Germany, for the temporary exhibition: ““Icon Karl Marx. Cult paintings and paintings of cult personality” which commemorates 130 years from the death of Karl Marx.
This painting is an iconic illustration of Frida Kahlo’s strong belief in the communism, especially felt in the last years of her life.
Wearing a leather corset, she appears against a divided background but the gentle hands of Karl Marx allow her to throw away her crutches.
“For the first time I am not crying anymore”, she said of this painting. This was one of Frida’s last works; at the time of her death in 1954 the painting was still on her easel.
The original painting is in the Blue House in Mexico and, according to the will of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo’s husband and heir, cannot leave the Blue House. The only replica existing in the world is part of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund Frida Kahlo exhibition, and it is in display in Baden-Baden since the opening of the Museum in February 2009.
The replica can be now seen in the Trier Stadtmuseum from March 17th to October 18th 2013.
The painting was given on loan and left the Kunstmuseum exactly on the day the Museum celebrated the beginning of its 5th year of Frida Kahlo exhibition in Baden-Baden.
The exhibition shows 115 paintings of Frida Kahlo (hand painted licensed replicas from © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008), hundreds of photos, Tehuana dresses, Maya stone, bones jewels as Frida Kahlo used to wear, Maya and Aztec artifacts, her Blue House.
The exhibition has been defined by Miguel Gleason, the Mexican film director: ”a secret and mysterious place”.

The Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is a privately owned monographic art museum which exhibits only the works of Frida Kahlo.
The paintings are hand painted licensed replicas authorized by © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008.

The objective of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is to offer the visitors a complete view of the entire work of the Mexican artist, thus allowing to follow Kahlo’s development, to discover the different phases she goes through in her life: from the very early works to her maturity.
The Vision of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is to offer the visitors a unique 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 exhibit the artworks, the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund shows the cultural and historical environment of Frida Kahlo’s life and times in Mexico: Tehuana Huipiles (blouses) and dresses, jewelry, pre-columbian scupltures, Mexican votive paintings and the entire context in which the artist lived and produced her work. This 360°view of Kahlo’s life and work allows the visitors to totally immerse themselves into the artworks and to better understand the artist and the Mexican history and culture.

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

Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund GmbH
Industrie Strasse 9a
76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
Tel #: +49 7221 97 11899
Press contact person: Dr. Mariella C. Remund
Info(at)FridaKahlo.Mu

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