Expert Talks: Camille Pissarro
With Camille Pissarro, an outsider became a central figure within the Impressionist collective. Born in the Caribbean, he came to France in 1855, sensed the anti-academic upsurge in painting, and attracted like-minded people. With their revolutionary style of painting, they founded the Impressionist movement. Pissarro is considered the founding figure of the Impressionist movement in France and is the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions in Paris. Based on the seven paintings by Pissarro in the Hasso Plattner Collection, the exhibition The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism provides a well-founded overview of his entire oeuvre based on over 100 landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes and figure paintings from around 50 international collections, including the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and at the same time shows the social utopian ideas of his art. In conversation with art historians and artists, this video introduces the themes of the exhibition.
- Claire Durand-Ruel, Art Historian, Paris
- Clarisse Fava-Piz, Curator, Denver Art Museum
- Colin Harrison, Curator, Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford
- Christoph Heinrich, Director, Denver Art Museum
- Lionel Pissarro, Art Dealer, Paris
- Daniel Zamani, Artistic Director, Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, former Head of Collection, Museum Barberini, Postdam
