Andy Warhol's 'Portrait of Society.'

On Wednesday 9 September, thanks to generous funding from the Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Gielen-Leyendecker Foundation, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn will open the new special exhibition 'Beethoven by Warhol'. It is dedicated to Warhol’s iconic portrayal of Ludwig van Beethoven, which is closely linked to Bonn and the Beethoven-Haus. The keynote address for the special exhibition will be given by Neil Printz, editor of the catalogue raisonné produced by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York. The lecture, delivered in English, provides an in-depth insight into Warhol’s development as a social portraitist, from his early commissioned portraits in the 1970s, through the commercial development of this body of work in the 1980s, to the portfolio BEETHOVEN (1987), the last series of prints completed during the artist’s lifetime.