FOTO: © Lukas Spörl

Impressionismus. Die Sammlung Hasso Plattner

Eine Sammlung, die es in sich hat: Die Größen des Impressionismus unter einem Dach. Mit 34 Werken (!) von Claude Monet sind übrigens außerhalb von Paris nirgendwo mehr Werke an einem Ort als in Potsdam zu sehen. Außerdem hängen in den heiligen Hallen noch Meisterwerke von Renoir und Signac. Macht euch auf eine atemberaubende Atmosphäre gefasst.

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

Das Museum Barberini in Potsdam zeigt vom 7. September 2020 an dauerhaft die umfangreiche Sammlung impressionistischer Gemälde des Museumsgründers Hasso Plattner – darunter Meisterwerke von Monet, Renoir und Signac. Mit 34 Gemälden von Claude Monet sind außerhalb von Paris nirgends in Europa mehr Werke dieses Künstlers an einem Ort zu sehen. Potsdam wird damit eines der weltweit wichtigsten Zentren impressionistischer Landschaftsmalerei. So bietet das Museum Barberini neben seinen Wechselausstellungen in internationalen Kooperationen eine in Deutschland einmalige Sammlung. With its focus on the fleeting moment, this movement has lost none of its original charm. The Impressionists wanted to paint everything in a fresh way. Their gift of observation resulted in realistic images of surprising abstraction. Guided by changing effects of light and atmosphere, they created timelessly beautiful landscapes whose pioneering spirit and energy continue to delight us to this very day. Hasso Plattner chose to concentrate on this style and explains his passion in the following terms: “The paintings involve us as viewers in a very direct way. We feel the wind on our skin and the temperature of the water when we look at Monet’s sailboats on the Seine. No other art can do that. The Impressionists are geniuses of communication.” Plattner is now lending a total of 103 works from his private collection as well as from the Hasso Plattner Foundation to the Museum Barberini. Amongst the most famous paintings in this body of works are Caillebotte’s Bridge at Argenteuil (1893), Monet’s Grainstacks (1891), Signac’s The Port at Sunset (1892), as well as Monet’s Palazzo Contarini (1908) and Water-Lilies (1914–17). With the Museum Barberini and his collection, one of Plattner’s aims is to remind us of the contested history of Impressionism in Germany. To this day, the paintings of this movement are underrepresented in German museums: “Due to national resentments, French Impressionism was only rarely collected during the imperial era in Germany. I would like my collection in the Museum Barberini—particularly due to its location in eastern Germany—to be a place of French-German friendship, of cultural openness, and of international exchange.” The collection enables visitors to visualize the history of French Impressionism. Ortrud Westheider, the Director of the Museum Barberini, underlines the importance of the new permanent display: “No other collection can present Impressionist landscape painting as comprehensively and coherently in terms of its development and iconography. Our works make the history of this fascinating art movement tangible.” In Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, the opening exhibition of the Museum Barberini in 2017, Westheider already confronted the preconception that Impressionism is merely a spontaneous and atmospheric art form. According to Westheider, this art deserves to be examined in a more profound way: “The fact that Hasso Plattner has now entrusted the Museum Barberini with this treasure as a permanent loan enables us to give new impulses to scholarship on Impressionism with our exhibitions, conferences, and lectures, and also to further enhance our international networks.” The catalog Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection by Ortrud Westheider will be published by Prestel in conjunction with the opening of the permanent display. On the museums website, the collection will be presented with texts by Daniel Zamani, Curator at the Museum Barberini, and results of provenance research conducted by Linda Hacka, Research Assistant at the museum. https://youtu.be/0g8zVZTebNU

Location

Museum Barberini Alter Markt / Humboldtstrasse 5-6 14467 Potsdam

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