Comprising 170 works, the exhibition Impressionism - Painting Light unfolds the mesmerizing world of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.  
 
In addition to 75 paintings from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, the show will include an enriching range of superb works from the Albertina and the Batliner Collection as well as loans from private collections and international museums. 40 historical objects, painting utensils and gadgets will convey an idea of an artist’s daily routine, of how he approached his motifs and prepared and executed his paintings. Didactic materials such as an installation for the explanation of optical phenomena or x-ray and infrared pictures will allow the visitor to literally grasp the genesis of Impressionist works.
 
The focus of this extraordinary and ambitious exhibition will be on the results of a five-year research project which has provided new, fascinating insights into the development of Impressionism and its techniques and modes of painting. Equal importance has been granted to the history and the technology of art. This approach has yielded fresh answers to such questions as “What is an impression?”, “Inside or outside?”, or “When is a painting finished?” - answers permitting to retell the story of Impressionism from a new perspective based on exemplary works by Courbet, Caillebotte, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Signac and Van Gogh.

This exhibition was conceived by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne.

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PICTURE GALLERY

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

Exhibition view "Impressionism" 

 

Albert Besnard
A Meadow in the Park in Calais, 1890 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil, 1879 

Claude Monet
View of Vétheuil, 1881  

Maximilien Luce
Notre Dame, View from Quai Saint-Michel, 1901-04 

 

Georges Seurat
Figure in a Landscape near Barbizon, circa 1882 

Gustave Caillebotte
Laundry Drying on the Bank of the Seine, circa 1892 

Paul Cézanne
Cup, Glass and Fruit II, circa 1877 

Paul Cézanne
Portrait of a Farmer, 1905/06 

 

Edgar Degas
Interior at M�nil-Hubert, 1892 

Edgar Degas
After the Bath, circa 1893 

Edgar Degas
Two Dancers, circa 1905 

Paul Gauguin
Breton Boy, 1889 

 

Édouard Manet
Woman with Tub, circa 1878/79 

Vincent Willem van Gogh
Impasse des deux frères, 1887 

Édouard Manet
Asparagus Still Life, 1880 

Maxime Maufra
Winter Landscape, 1890 

 

Claude Monet
Fishing Boats on the Beach at Étretat, 1883-84 

Alfred Sisley
Bridge at Hampton Court, 1874 

Berthe Morisot
The Harbour at Nice, 1881/82 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Woman with a Parasol in a Garden, 1875/76 

 

Théo van Rysselberghe
Seated Nude, 1905 

Paul Signac
Capo di Noli, 1898 

Wool case of Vincent van Gogh, reconstruction 

Pleinair-equipment of the painter Jules-Ernest Renoux 

 
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