Portugal hosts its first exhibition dedicated to Tintin’s creator

For the first time, Portugal is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Tintin’s creator, the multi-talented Belgian artist Georges Remi, better known as “Hergé” (the sound of his initials, reversed).

The exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon has been co-produced with the Hergé Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

The exhibition reveals the many other facets of the artist by bringing together an important selection of documents, original storyboards, paintings, and photographs by Tintin’s creator, through which visitors can decipher the art behind his creative genius.

Inspired by several artistic movements of his time – from pop art to abstract art through to minimalism – the self-taught artist was also interested in ancient civilisations and the so-called…