Trailer: The Impressionists. Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Their Network

How did a small group of young artists, whose paintings were initially met with rejection, come to be known as perhaps the most popular art movement of the modern era? To mark the Museums Barberini's tenth anniversary, the major anniversary exhibition The Impressionists: Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Their Network retells the story of Impressionism: as a story of friendships and patrons, courageous collectors, influential art dealers and critics—and of personal relationships that carried an artistic revolution from Paris out into the world.

The anniversary exhibition also serves as a retrospective of the Museum Barberini's work since its opening in 2017. Building on the Hasso Plattner Collection, the museum has devoted itself intensively to Impressionism over the past ten years—through exhibitions featuring international artists, scholarly symposia, and major publications. To mark the anniversary, works on loan from many museums with which the Barberini has collaborated in recent years are now being brought together in a single exhibition.

More than 100 masterpieces are on display at the exhibition in Potsdam, including works by Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Gustave Caillebotte. The loans come from institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Kunsthaus Zurich.