IMPRESSIONISM - EXPRESSIONISM, ART AT A TURNING POINT / MAY 22 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 AT ALTE NATIONALGALERIE, BERLIN

From May 22 to September 20, 2015, the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin presents a groundbreaking exhibition at Alte Nationalgalerie comparing the two art movements for the first time. From 1896, Berlin`s Nationalgalerie was the first museum to begin collecting Impressionist paintings under the leadership of museum director Hugo von Tschudi, ahead of museums in Paris and other cities. Tschudi`s successor, Ludwig Justi, went on to assemble a renowned collection of works by Expressionist artists in the former Kronprinzenpalais from 1918 onwards.

 

This comprehensive exhibition will trace the similarities and differences between the two movements. Over 160 Impressionist and Expressionist masterpieces, mainly by German and French artists, have been assembled from the collections of the Nationalgalerie and other international museums. The development of Impressionism is associated with artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in France, and with Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt in Germany. Expressionism, which mounted a strong counter-reaction to Impressionism, originated in Germany and was spearheaded by painters including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, and Franz Marc.

 

The exhibition is organized according to subjects represented in both movements – Cities, Suburbs, and Pedestrians, Cafés, Dancers, and Cabaret Life, The Creation of Leisure, Still Life, Villas and Country Homes, Artists, Dandies, Connoisseurs, Patrons, and Collectors, etc. – and will occupy the middle floor of the Alte Nationalgalerie.

 

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