Guernica after Bombing

 

Picasso Painting Guernica

 

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Guernica was bombed by the German squadron known as the Condor Legion, under command of Francisco Franco. The Condor Legion was assigned aerial missions throughout Spain, as Nazi Germany's prime contribution to Franco's forces. As a result, there were about 10,000 deaths, most of which were all but elderly people, women, and children. The bombardment of Guernica became a world-renowned symbol of the horrors of war. It inspired Pablo Picasso's most anti- war work of art, called Guernica. In this painting, Picasso captured the anguish, dispair, violence and dementia of Franco and his actions.

Victim of the Spanish Civil War

Part of Guernica Painting: Woman with Her Dead Child