Dylan artworks to go on display

Dylan's art will hang among works by Picasso and Munch

US rock star Bob Dylan has agreed to display a collection of his artworks at a museum in Germany later this year.

The exhibition, called The Drawn Blank Series, will include several sketches from a book created by the star between 1989 and 1992.

The rock star said of the drawings: "If not for this interest, I don't know if I even would have revisited them."

The four-month show, which opens in October, will take place in the eastern German city of Chemnitz.

Impetus

Over 200 paintings, based on drawings and sketches will be on display until February 2008.

They will hang among works by European masters including Picasso, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec.

The exhibition came about after the 66-year-old musician was approached by Ingrid Moessinger, a curator of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum.

Dylan said: "I was fascinated to learn of Ingrid's interest in my work, and it gave me the impetus to realise the vision I had for these drawings many years ago."