Group show
Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape
27 Sep 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at Alte Nationalgalerie
· Berlin
Exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie (2024-2025)
This exhibition examines how Claude Monet and the Impressionist painters transformed the cityscape into a subject of artistic innovation. Through studies of light, color, and atmosphere, the artists depicted the rapidly changing urban environment of 19th-century Paris and beyond, capturing fleeting moments of modern life.
This exhibition examines how Claude Monet and the Impressionist painters transformed the cityscape into a subject of artistic innovation. Through studies of light, color, and atmosphere, the artists depicted the rapidly changing urban environment of 19th-century Paris and beyond, capturing fleeting moments of modern life.
About the artist
Claude Monet
1840–1926 · Impressionism
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing…
About the artist →About the venue
Alte Nationalgalerie
· Berlin
The Alte Nationalgalerie is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. The gallery was built from 1862 to 1876 by the order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack in Neoclassical and…
