Henry Moret

Born 1856 in Cherbourg
Died 1913 in Paris

Moret’s primary motifs were the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, whose rocky cliffs he painted using bright colors in a late Impressionist style.

Moret came from the Cotentin Peninsula on the English Channel. In 1875, he served in the military in Lorient on the Breton coast, where he took painting lessons for the first time. Beginning in 1876 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and repeatedly showed his work at the official Salon.

In 1888 he spent the summer in Pont-Aven for the first time. There, an artists’ colony had formed around Paul Gauguin, to which Loiseau also belonged. Moret appropriated elements of the Pont-Aven School, combining them with his late Impressionist style. He traveled throughout Brittany and finally settled in Doëlan. In the 1890s, he painted seascapes with motifs reminiscent of Monet.

Moret in the collection

Henry Moret is represented with one work in the Hasso Plattner Collection, on view in the Museum Barberini as a permanent loan from the Hasso Plattner Foundation. With over 110 paintings of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Gustave Caillebotte, and Paul Signac, the museum in Potsdam is one of the most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting in the world.