In the Online Live Talk series the Museum Barberini offers a digital lecture 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 opening up new perspectives on the works.

Costs
€ 5

Runtime
50 minutes

Booking
Online

Venue
Online lecture (in German) via Zoom

Please note 
The respective topic is offered as a live lecture on the following day (Thursday) at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Museum Barberini, see Thursday Art Special. You will receive a link to the online lecture at your e-mail address before the event. Please also check your spam.

Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Beach Pictures: Riding, reading, drinking tea – Free time on the beach 
Jacqueline Hartwig, art historian, Museum Barberini

Walking and riding on the beach; sitting in a café or in the sand – the summer beach resort reflected a new attitude to life and leisure in the second half of the 19th century. Small coastal villages became sophisticated seaside resorts. A new generation of Dutch artists captured these coastal pleasures. The painters were inspired to paint light-flooded pictures in the small sea-side towns of Scheveningen and Zandvoort. Based on the exhibition Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland, the lecture is dedicated to the beach paintings of the Dutch Impressionists.

Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Monet's Series 'Grainstacks': History of an Unusual Motif
Andreas Knüppel, art historian

A central painting by Claude Monet in the Hasso Plattner Collection shows stacks of grain in the glowing light of the setting sun. Why did Monet choose this unusual and seemingly insignificant motif? It has a long tradition in painting. From the early Dutch painters Bosch and Brueghel to the French realists Millet and Courbet, many artists have chosen these symbols of agricultural labor as motifs for their art, thus paying homage to their importance in society.


Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Monet in Holland
Peter Eurlings, art historian

"We have very good accommodation here and we will stay all summer.... This is a great place to paint, everything is equally amusing. Houses of all colors, windmills by the hundreds and magnificent boats, extraordinarily nice Dutch people, almost all of whom speak French..." wrote Claude Monet from Zaandam to his friend Pissarro on June 17, 1871. In the 1870s and 80s, Monet traveled to Holland two or three times. More than 40 paintings were created during these stays amidst the windmills in Zaandam, along the canals in Amsterdam, and in the multicolored bulb fields. Two of these paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Museum Barberini. Dutch art historian Peter Eurlings describes Monet's French view of the Dutch landscape, which, in Monet´s view, at times presented colors that were impossible to replicate with his limited palette, thereby driving to frustration.
 

Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 6:30 Uhr
Birthday Guests. Monet to Van Gogh
Gesine Harms, art historian

The Kunstverein Bremen celebrates its 200th anniversary this year with the exhibiton From Monet to Van Gogh, featuring French masterpieces. The former director of the Bremen Kunsthalle Gustav Pauli acquired paintings and sculptures by Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh with art historical foresight and a progressive acquisition policy. In particular, the purchase of Van Gogh's 'Poppy Field' caused a Germany-wide scandal in 1911. Art historian Gesine Harms draws exciting and diverse connections between the Bremen exhibition and Potsdam's Museum Barberini, from the 38 works by Monet in the Hasso Plattner Collection to the landscapes by Van Gogh in the exhibition Clouds and Light. Impressionism in Holland.