Claude Monet: Grainstacks, 1890
22nd Conference. Networks of Impressionism
Wed, Nov 12, 10 a.m.
How did a small group of radical painters become the most popular art movement of modern times? Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and their fellow Impressionists not only changed the way people saw light and color—they also created a network of friends, patrons, and collectors that carried their works around the world. Writers such as Émile Zola and Octave Mirbeau supported them with influential reviews. New groups of buyers were drawn to this revolutionary approach to painting. Some, like department store owner Ernest Hoschedé and opera singer Jean-Baptiste Faure, began collecting Impressionist art on a large scale. The Paris World’s Fairs and Paul Durand-Ruel’s galleries in Paris and New York gave the Impressionists international exposure.
The exhibition Networks of Impressionism is dedicated to the web of relationships that enabled this art movement to succeed. It highlights the private Parisian salons and yacht clubs as meeting places for the avant-garde, and examines the commitment of collectors and promoters in the United States and Germany.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Museum Barberini, the exhibition brings together ten works from the Hasso Plattner Collection with 70 Impressionist paintings from major museum collections, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, and the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.
The symposium is held in preparation for the exhibition that will be on view from November 7, 2026, to February 21, 2027, at Museum Barberini.
10:00
Welcome
Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini
10:15
Netzwerke des Impressionismus. Eine Künstlergruppe findet sich
Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini
11:15
„La peinture nouvelle.“ Schriftsteller als Unterstützer der Impressionisten
Prof. Dr. Martin Schieder, Universität Leipzig
12:15
Lunch break
14:00
Claude Monet and Chicago. Early American Collectors of Impressionism
Dr. Gloria Groom, The Art Institute of Chicago
Lecture in English
15:00
Impressionism, the Art Market and Museums. Paul Durand-Ruel and the Musée du Luxembourg
Dr. Sylvie Patry, Mennour Institute, Paris
Lecture in English
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
„Ceux de chez nous“ (1915). Sacha Guitrys Film zu Monet im Kontext
Dr. Johanne Hoppe,
Filmmuseum Potsdam
17:30
Netzwerke des Impressionismus. Eine digitale Plattform für die Provenienzforschung
Linda Hacka, Museum Barberini
18:30
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