Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland
Landscape painting originated in Holland, and the realism of the seventeenth-century Old Masters long set the standard. With the development of plein air painting in France, nineteenth-century Dutch artists found new inspiration. Painters of the Hague School captured nature’s changing moods of light in vast, cloudy skies using a wide range of grays. Beginning in the 1880s, Impressionist influences from France sparked an interest in cityscapes and images of modern life, followed by the unleashing of color in the painting of Pointillism.
Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig: At the Dunes, Zandvoort, 1891-92, Singer Laren, gift of P. J. Hart Nibbrig 1981
The exhibition Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland brings together around a hundred works by some forty artists including Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincent van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Piet Mondrian. Lenders include the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Dordrechts Museum, the Kröller Müller-Museum in Otterlo, and the Singer Museum in Laren.
An exhibition of the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Germany, His Excellency Ronald van Roeden.
Theme year „Holland in Potsdam“
Exhibition, event program, blog and audio walk: Around 50 Potsdam cultural institutions celebrate Dutch art and influences in Potsdam in 2023 in the theme year "Holland in Potsdam". The event kicks off on April 27, Koningsdag, the Dutch national holiday and also the launch date of the blog that accompanies the cultural summer.
The Dutch Quarter in Potsdam is world famous - but the Dutch influences in Potsdam go far beyond that. From April to September 2023, the project "Holland in Potsdam" will focus on Potsdam's various connections to the Netherlands: from the Tulip Festival to migration, from visual arts to horticulture.
Screenshot Stadtspaziergang „Holland in Potsdam“
The multifaceted nature of the program is due to the more than 20 participating institutions with more than 50 actors from Potsdam's cultural life, including the Museum Barberini and the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation as initiators of the campaign, as well as the Potsdam Museum, the Jan Bouman Haus, the Lindenstraße Memorial Foundation, the Film Museum, the Mühlenvereinigung Berlin-Brandenburg, the Förderverein Jagdschloss Stern and the Liebermann Villa on Wannsee. They all participate with contributions to the blog, which accompanies the event program and on which articles, videos and picture series will be published every week until the fall, alternating contemporary and historical topics.
As early as April 27, the free Barberini app will offer a city tour as an audio tour to 20 different locations in the city with exciting Holland references. Like its predecessor projects "Italy in Potsdam" and "France in Potsdam," the city tour will be permanently available as an audio guide tour on the app and will also be published later this year as a small art guide in the series of publications of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.
All information, contributions and events can be found on the blog.