The Albertina to feature "Painting Light - Impressionism / Impressionism"

Written by Dorothy Meadows Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:05

Vienna, Austria - Comprising 170 works, the exhibition Impressionism – Painting Light unfolds the mesmerizing world of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting at The Albertina through January 10, 2010. In addition to 75 paintings from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, the show will include an enriching range of superb works from the Albertina and the Batliner Collection as well as loans from private collections and international museums.

Forty (40) historical objects, painting utensils and gadgets will convey an idea of an artist’s daily routine, of how he approached his motifs and prepared and executed his paintings. Didactic materials such as an installation for the explanation of optical phenomena or x-ray and infrared pictures will allow the visitor to literally grasp the genesis of Impressionist works.

The focus of this extraordinary and ambitious exhibition will be on the results of a five-year research project which has provided new, fascinating insights into the development of Impressionism and its techniques and modes of painting. Equal importance has been granted to the history and the technology of art. This approach has yielded fresh answers to such questions as “What is an impression?”, “Inside or outside?”, or “When is a painting finished?” – answers permitting to retell the story of Impressionism from a new perspective based on exemplary works by Courbet, Caillebotte, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Signac, and Van Gogh.

EXHIBITION ITINERARY

Title Impressionism – Painting Light

Venue Propter Homines Hall and Jeanne and Donald Kahn Galleries

Objects 170 works, therefrom 130 paintings and 40 objects

Curator Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Heinz Widauer, assistance Gisela Fischer

This exhibition was conceived by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne.

Catalogue

Impressionism – Painting Light - Texts by Iris Schaefer, Caroline von Saint-George, Katja Lewerentz, Gisela Fischer, Heinz Widauer

Published by SKIRA, Milano in German and English. Ca. 3oo pages. Available at the Albertina’s museum shop.

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