The Sun: Source of Light in Art
Press materials
Press texts
The press texts related to the exhibition is available here for download.
Press release The Sun: Source of Light in Art (PDF, 70.00KB)
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Press images

Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise, 1872
Oil on canvas
50 x 65 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Gift of Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy, 1940
50 x 65 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Gift of Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy, 1940
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris / Studio Baraja SLB

Caspar David Friedrich
Willow Bushes under a Setting Sun, 1832–1835
Oil on canvas
22 x 30,6 cm
Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt am Main
22 x 30,6 cm
Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt am Main
© David Hall - ARTOTHEK

William Turner
Mortlake Terrace, 1827
Oil on canvas
92,1 x 122,2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
92,1 x 122,2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
© Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Arthur G. Dove
Red Sun, 1935
Oil on canvas
51,44 x 71,12 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
51,44 x 71,12 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
© Andrew Dintenfass, The Estate of Arthur G. Dove, courtesy Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10021

Peter Paul Rubens
The Fall of Phaëthon, 1604–05, probably reworked ca. 1606–08
Oil on canvas
98,4 x 131,2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund
98,4 x 131,2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund
© Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Joachim von Sandrart
The Day, 1643
Oil on canvas
148 x 123 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Schleißheim, Staatsgalerie Schleißheim
148 x 123 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Schleißheim, Staatsgalerie Schleißheim
© Blauel Gnamm - ARTOTHEK

Valdemar Schønheyder Møller
Sunset: Fontainebleau, 1900
Oil on canvas
116,2 x 88,3 cm
SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
116,2 x 88,3 cm
SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
© SMK, Photo: Jakob Skou-Hansen

Félix Valloton
Sunset, Orange Sky, 1910
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, purchased with a contribution by Charles and Lisa Jäggli-Hahnloser, 1976
54 x 73 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, purchased with a contribution by Charles and Lisa Jäggli-Hahnloser, 1976
© SIK-ISEA, Zürich (Jean-Pierre Kuhn)

Exhibition view
The Sun: Source of Light in Art
© VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn 2023, Photo: David von Becker

Exhibition view
The Sun: Source of Light in Art
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Photo: David von Becker