Barberini Prolog: Website of the exhibition

Barberini Prolog is a good way to prepare yourself for the exhibitions of the museum. A compact, multimedia website, Prolog gives an overview of topics and works and is useful for planning your museum visit or for recommending the show to others.

Max Liebermann, Perennials in Front of the Gardener’s House to the North, 1928

Avant-Garde: Max Liebermann and Impressionism in Germany

February 28 – June 7, 2026

Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection

The Prolog of the collection

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Marie Cécile Thijs: White Unicorn,  ca. 2015

Unicorn: The Mythical Beast in Art

October 25, 2025–February 1, 2026

Pissarro discovered nature in all its seasons . . .

The Honest Eye. Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

14. June – Sep 28, 2025

Sophie Taeuber-Arp had received training in the applied arts, but crossed the rigid boundary between the fine and applied arts early on. Her abstract painting profited from the decorative patterns of her woven tapestries and the formal repertoire of textile art.

Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century

15. Feb – May 18, 2025

Maurice de Vlaminck:  Bougival,  1905, Dallas Museum of Art

Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel

14 Sep 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

Modigliani: Modern Gazes

Apr 27 – Aug 18, 2024

Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth

Nov 18, 2023 – Apr 1, 2024

Jacob Maris: Stone Mill,  ca. 1890, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, acquired from Mr. E.H. Crone with support of the Rembrandt Association

Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland

8. July – Oct 22, 2023

Caspar David Friedrich
Willow Bushes under a Setting Sun (Detail), 1832–1835
Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt am Main

The Sun: Source of Light in Art

25. Feb – June 11, 2023

Victor Brauner’s The Surrealist builds on the iconography of the tarot – a  deck of cards that has been used for divinatory purposes since the 18th century. As a template he took the card “The Magician,” which symbolizes willpower and creativity. The four attributes of the figure (wand, coins, chalice and dagger) represent the alchemical power over the four elements and indicate that the magician is in possession of the elixir of life and thus also of immortality.

Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity

Oct 22, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023

The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945

4. June – Sep 25, 2022

Heinrich Kühn: Miss Mary and Lotte , 1907, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

A New Art: Photography and Impressionism

12. Feb – May 8, 2022

Kazimir Malevich: Sisters,  1930, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Impressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-Garde

Aug 28, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022

Aelbert Gerritsz. Cuyp: Group Portrait of the Sam Family, ca. 1653, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Rembrandt’s Orient West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century

13. March – July 18, 2021

The Beach at Trouville ,  1870, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

Monet: Places

22. Feb – July 19, 2020

Carafe and Dish with Citrus Fruit, 1887, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Van Gogh: Still Lifes

Oct 26, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020