Loan to the exhibition: Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Loan to the exhibition: Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
The exhibition unites Berlin, the alpha of his life, with Barcelona - a city he knew - considered around 1900 "the city of toys" with the manufacture of German and French models, and with Portbou, the place of the sunset of Walter Benjamin's life. The toy book The Transformations of Fritz Sinnnreich (1815) connects theatrical culture with the spirit of play and allows visitors to photograph themselves behind their costumes and become a character.
Place and dates: Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
Walter Benjamin (Berlin, 1892-Portbou, 1940) is the most important German intellectual of Jewish origin in the 20th century. Writer, philosopher, literary critic and essayist , is considered one of his most singular critical, unorthodox and prophetic voices and a key figure in contemporary thought . Passionate collector, he treasured a famous collection of children's books and toys, most of which were lost with the exile and confiscation of his property. The specimens from his collection kept by his son Stefan Rafael Benjamin (1918-1972) are the set of which we present a taste.
Frederic Marés and Deulovol (Portbou, 1893-Barcelona, 1991), of the same generation as Benjamin, collected in the Frederic Marés Museum in Barcelona the children's imagination of toy theaters, as well as cut-outs of German and French figurines, stories and children's games that circulated in Europe at the end of the 19th century .
The exhibition unites Berlin, the alpha of his life, with Barcelona - a city he knew - considered around 1900 "the city of toys" with the manufacture of German and French models, and with Portbou, the place of the sunset of Walter Benjamin's life. The toy book The transformations of
Fritz Sinnnreich (1815) connects theatrical culture with the spirit of play and allows visitors to be photographed behind their costumes and become a character.
Place and dates: Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025
House of Culture Les Bernardes (Province of Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025
The Museum has loaned some pieces:
Toy theater
Theater mouthpiece
1926
Paper, lithography
MFMS 11403
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates: Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
Toy theater
Lithograph Sons of Paluzie
1901
Paper, lithography
MFMS 11296
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates: Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
Cut out: Toy theater
Scheibenfiguren. Target characters. No. 743
Late 19th century
Lithography
MFM 7494
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates : Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
Cut out: Toy theater
Hansel and Gretel (Cut-out, children's story. Hansel and Gretel)
late 19th century - early 20th century
Chromolithography
MFM 7452
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates : Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
album
Album Amor Filial / Album by Maria de los Angeles Daura
nineteenth century
Paper, printed
MFM S-27012
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates : Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
Cut out: Dida taking care of children
nineteenth century
Paper, printed
MFM S-27090
Exhibition : Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates : Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt. From September 19 to December 20, 2025
Cut out: Toy theater
Rötkaepchen (Cut-out, children's story. Little Red Riding Hood)
late 19th century - early 20th century
chromolithography
MFM 7453
Exhibition: Walter Benjamin. A journey through childhood imagination between Berlin, Barcelona and Portbou
Place and dates: Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. From 18 to 27 July 2025.
House of Culture Les Bernardes de Salt (Girona). From September 19 to December 20, 2025.
