Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe silkscreens — produced in many variations between 1962 and 1967 — are the defining images of American Pop Art. Transferring a publicity still taken before Monroe's death in August 1962, Warhol reproduced her face in fields of acid colour, treating the star's portrait as a mass-produced commodity and exposing the emptiness of celebrity, mortality, and mass-media iconography. The Museum Ludwig in Cologne holds one of Europe's largest Warhol collections, gifted by Peter and Irene Ludwig; its Marilyn works form the core of the museum's Pop Art galleries.

Exhibition Venue

Museum Ludwig

Cologne, Germany