VIENNA.- The exhibition Picasso: Peace and Freedom shows the twentieth centurys most important painter from a hitherto almost unknown perspective: in cooperation with Tate Liverpool, the Albertina presents Pablo Picasso as a politically and socially committed artist, thereby questioning the common image of this genius of a century. Assembling some two hundred exhibits from more than sixty international collections, the exhibition illustrates within a historical review and in chronological order how Picasso responded to the war and its atrocities in his art. The exhibitions scope ranges from Picasso as a history painter and his key motif of the Dove of Peace one of the most important symbols of hope and the most famous emblem of the Peace Movement to his still lifes, which contain subtle and hidden commentaries on global events, as well as hints of Picassos political attitude. In 1944, Picasso jo