David von Becker
Paintings on Tour
Since the fall of 2020, over a hundred works of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism from the Hasso Plattner Collection have been on permanent display in the Museum Barberini, including masterpieces by Monet, Caillebotte, Renoir, and Signac. Occasionally, individual paintings will be lent to international exhibitions to support ongoing study of an artist and his oeuvre. Here you can read which of our pictures have traveled
Paul Signac, The Port at Sunset, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez), 1892
Paul Signac: The Port at sunset, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez), 1892, Oil on Canvas, 65 x 81 cm, Hasso Plattner Collection
The Museum Barberini has granted this painting as a loan for the exhibition Bon Voyage, Signac!, which is on view at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne from April 16 to August 22, 2021.
With Paul Signac’s Constantinople: Yeni Djami (1909), the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne houses one of the artist’s late key works. The painting is the focus of the exhibition Bon Voyage, Signac!, which is laid out as an impressionist journey through the museum’s own collection and which, in addition to Signac, also includes paintings by Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. This museum’s own holdings of around 60 works are enriched by nine important Signac loans from collections in Europe and the USA, including paintings from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Museum Barberini is supporting the project with Signac’s The Port at Sunset (1892) – one of the first compositions the artist produced after his move to the Côte d’Azur. With a total of four works, the Hasso Plattner Collection has the most extensive holdings of Signac paintings anywhere in Germany.
Camille Pissarro, Garden and Henhouse at Octave Mirbeau's, Les Damps, 1892
Camille Pissarro: Garden and Henhouse at Octave Mirbeau's, Les Damps, 1892, Oil on canvas, 73,3 x 92 cm, Hasso Plattner Collection
The Museum Barberini has granted this painting as a loan for the exhibition Gardenside: From Monet to Bonnard, which will be on view at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny from April 1 to November 1, 2021.
The garden was a key theme of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. The exhibition at the Musée des impressionnismes examines this motif at the intersection between the Impressionists around Claude Monet and the Nabi painters around Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Assembling around 100 paintings, drawings, and prints, it traces the role of the garden as the expression of a new artistic sensibility, marked by a longing for the harmonious union of man and nature. In light of his sympathies for anarchist ideals (including a belief in nature as a source of individual and social regeneration), the work of Camille Pissarro is key to this project. In addition to the painting from the Hasso Plattner Collection, the exhibition includes several other important works by the artist, amongst them loans from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Musée d’art moderne André Malraux in Le Havre.