"Sunset" – Bograshov Beach, Tel Aviv, Israel

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known artists. Many of the paintings depict scenes that evoke beaches or the sea – for example, "Sunset" an oil colour painted in 1921-22 by the German-born expressionist, Max Pechstein.

Pechstein was a prolific printmaker, producing 421 lithographs, 315 woodcuts and linocuts, and 165 intaglio prints, mostly etchings. Pechstein was a professor at the Berlin Academy for ten years before his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. Thereafter, he was vilified by the Nazis because of his art. A total of 326 of his paintings were removed from German museums. Sixteen of his works were displayed in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition of 1937. During this time, Pechstein went into seclusion in rural Pomerania. He eventually sought refuge in Mandatory Palestine. He was reinstated into the Berlin Academy in 1945, and subsequently won numerous titles and awards for his work. He died in West Berlin and is buried in that city's Evangelischer Friedhof Alt-Schmargendorf.