Modernity by the Sea  

The Museum Barberini in Potsdam permanently displays the extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings belonging to museum founder Hasso Plattner. With 115 works by 23 artists—including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and Alfred Sisley—it offers a unique overview of French landscape painting. With 40 paintings by Claude Monet, Potsdam is the most important center of Impressionist landscape art in Europe outside Paris.

The presentation includes works from the 1850s to the early 20th century and shows the development of French landscape painting in Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Fauvism in nine themed rooms. In this video series, you will find the texts on the topics of the collection in DGS:

0. Introduction
1. Reflections in the River
2. Paris and the Periphery
3. A New Kind of Realism
4. Modernity by the Sea
5. Garden Paintings
6. The Color White
7. The Coasts of Europe
8. Monet’s Series Paintings
9. Landscapes of the Fauves