« back	The Nationalgalerie’s project delineates Warhol’s development as an artist in a number of hitherto partly unpublished early drawings, created in Pittsburgh and New York between 1942 and 1960. The retrospective shows the first hand-painted, black-and-white works, in which Warhol begins to disprove the concept of an original artistic handwriting, of a unique sujet and starts to depict reality as a sequence of banal objects. The Berlin exhibition succeeds in bringing together the most important examples of American icons and consumer products paintings, of Self-Portraits and Flowers paintings of the early 1960s. Furthermore, the series of 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art could be won for the retrospective. The exhibition pays tribute to the artist’s late large-scale works in an exemplary fashion. The focus of the exhibition, however, is set on the amazing Disaster paintings, as Atomic Bomb; on works, which show “death in America” (Andy Warhol) in Suicide, Car Crash, Electric Chair and Race Riot paintings – the catastrophes of the 20th century. After 35 years, the Nationalgalerie can bring together in an exhibition for the first time ever the complete series of the Most Wanted Men – thanks to the support of a large number of private collectors and institutional lenders. Doubtlessly, the Andy Warhol Retrospective is one of the most important exhibitions of the Nationalgalerie Berlin.