Sundays Art Special
Sundays the Museum Barberini presents special lectures (in German) on a particular aspect of the Hasso Plattner Collection or the current exhibition. Museum curators, conservators, and guides speak about their various disciplines and areas of work, offering a glimpse behind the scenes and offering new perspectives on the works of art.
Costs
€ 5 plus admission
Venue
Auditorium
Runtime
50 minutes
Note
The lectures are offered also digitally as an Online Live Talk on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.
Feb 25, 2024, 1 p.m.
The artists' colony Skagen and Edvard Munch
Andreas Knüppel, Art Historian
Edvard Munch is one of the most famous Scandinavian artists of the turn of the century. In the 1880s, it was mainly Danish artists who caused a sensation at the Paris World Exhibitions. The painters who gathered in the artists' colony in the Danish fishing village of Skagen during this period painted light-flooded pictures and took modern life as their theme. There they found working conditions and opportunities for expression that represented a break with the academic conception of art. Their art was to be more realistic and "truer" than before. They valued painting outdoors and oriented themselves to French Realism and Naturalism.
The art historian Andreas Knüppel presents artists from Denmark, Sweden and the young state of Norway who were influenced in different ways by Impressionism and also refers to regional developments in painting.
Mar 3, 2024, 1 p.m.
Edvard Munch and Harry Graf Kessler
Lutz Stöppler, art historian
The exhibition Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth focuses for the first time on his engagement with nature as a mirror of his mental state. Furthermore, over the course of his life, Munch created many portraits in which the characteristics of the subjects can be discerned in their expressions. In the context of the exhibition, Lutz Stöppler presents Munch’s self-portraits and portraits of Harry Graf Kessler.
Kessler and Munch met on January 20, 1895, when Kessler, together with Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen, visited the Norwegian painter in his Berlin studio. The "Red Count" Kessler played a key role in the reception of the Norwegian painter in the German-speaking world as publisher of the magazine Pan, director of the Museum für Kunstgewerbe und Kunst in Weimar, and one of the initiators of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Munch documented this role through fascinating portraits of Harry Graf Kessler.
Mar 24, 2024, 1 p.m.
“Painting Happiness": The Neo-Impressionist Henri Edmond Cross, his friend Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro and Maximilian Luce in the Hasso Plattner Collection
Gesine Harms, art historian
The painters of French pointillism broke new ground in art with their method of calculated light effects and refined stippling techniques. Henri Edmond Cross is considered one of the most important representatives of this Neo-Impressionist movement. Camille Pissarro and Maximilien Luce also created works in this style.
Beginning in the 1890s, Cross experimented with bright pure colors that he carefully juxtaposed in dots or short brushstrokes, comparable to a mosaic process. He left Paris and moved to the Côte d'Azur, where the Mediterranean light of the south henceforth determined his painting. His painter friend Paul Signac followed him to the Mediterranean, where he too created paintings of intense luminosity of color.