Alfred Brendel : Paintings

Alexanderschlacht

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

A unique combination of grandeur and detail, of an almost cosmic vision and the precision of a miniaturist.

Ginevra de Benci

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Calls the legend that Leonardo was exclusively a painter of hermaphrodites a lie. My favourite female portrait.

Nymph and Shepherd

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Refined sensuality by an octogenarian genius.

Spanschachtel und Nautilus - Still Life with a Nautilus, Panther Shell, and Chip-Wood Box

Metropolitan Museum, New York

The essential still life.

David with the head of Goliath

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Turbulent and controlled at once. The picture’s centre is not Goliath’s head but the circle of a musical instrument.

A lady in a satin dress in front of a bed with red draperies

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

My idea of perfection.

"A Montrouge" - Rosa la Rouge

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Here, the character of the young woman is unconcealed. The viewer is hit by anarchic defiance.

Guernica

Museo de la Reina Sofia, Madrid

The peak of an amazing half-century of painting that broke away from the rules of tradition.