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.
With this exhibition, the Museum Barberini celebrates its tenth anniversary. Paintings from the Hasso Plattner Collection are shown in dialogue with works from museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the National 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.
Conference program (PDF, 175.16KB)
10:00
Welcome
Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini
10:15
Networks of Impressionism: New Strategies of Artists
Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Museum Barberini
Lecture in German
“La peinture nouvelle”: Writers as Supporters of the Impressionists
Prof. Dr. Martin Schieder, Universität Leipzig
Lecture in German
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
Trading Strategies: Network, Market, Marketing
Dr. Sylvie Patry, Chief Curator and Head of the Musée d’Orsay’s and Musée de l’Orangerie’s Anniversary Celebrations
Lecture in English
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
„Ceux de chez nous“ (1915). Sacha Guitry’s Film Portrait of Monet in Context
Dr. Johanne Hoppe, Film historian, Potsdam
17:30
Networks of Impressionism: A Digital Platform for Provenance Research
Linda Hacka, Museum Barberini
Lecture in German
18:30
Reception