When Pablo Picasso arrives in Paris in 1900, the 19-year-old is an unknown. The Spaniard creates modern art, but the world still turns a cold shoulder to his work, and so the struggling artist lives and paints with other avant-gardists in a rundown house in Montmartre. Here, he meets his first muse and lover, Fernande Olivier, befriends companions like Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Gertrude Stein, and gradually makes a name for himself—until he shocks all of Paris in 1907 with "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and revolutionizes art. Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie deftly intertwine Picasso's triumphs and crises with a portrait of a flourishing era, complete with all its moments of light and shadow. This complete edition brings together all four volumes for the first time in German.