‘Mini-Picasso’ is coining it

GERMANY: STILL IN NAPPIES BUT ART WORLD GOES MAD FOR HIS RIOTOUS ABSTRACTS

- Neubeuern

Three-year-old Laurent Schwarz may still be wearing nappies but his paintings have earned him social media fame and the nickname of Germany's “mini-Picasso”.

In a studio his parents have set up at their home in the Bavarian town of Neubeuern, the toddler has been busy creating splashy artworks, often several times bigger than he is.

When he is not playing with his dinosaur toys, he likes to liberally apply acrylic paint to canvas with brushes, rollers or just his fingers to create riotously abstract pieces.