Claude Monet (exhibition Wuppertal)

Advertising poster for the exhibition at the museum

The Claude Monet exhibition at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal was a special exhibition of works by the French painter Claude Monet . It took place from October 11, 2009 to February 28, 2010.

exhibition

The Houses of Parliament of London , the Marmottan Museum in Paris

The exhibition, with almost 300,000 visitors, showed around 100 works by the artist, who was one of the most important founders of the style and epoch of Impressionism . The exhibits were on loan from several museums, galleries and private collections worldwide.

Works from all of his creative periods were exhibited. These ranged from early caricatures and realistic images to Impressionist paintings, for example with various versions from the series on the water lily pond, the corn stacker, the Parliament buildings of London or the Cathedral of Rouen .

There is a catalog and a film about the exhibition, made in cooperation with ZDF.

Conception and lender

The conception of the exhibition was carried out by the museum director Gerhard Finckh in close cooperation with the Musée Marmottan in Paris . The lenders of the paintings for this special exhibition are also museums such as B. the Van Gogh Museum ( Amsterdam ), the Alte Nationalgalerie ( Berlin ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York ), the Austrian Gallery Belvedere ( Vienna ) or the Kunsthaus Zürich . In return, the von der Heydt-Museum made works from its holdings available to the lending museums.

The exhibition was financed with funds from the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation , which was founded by the Wuppertal paper producer Werner Jackstädt .

literature

Gerhard Finckh (Ed.): Claude Monet . On the occasion of the exhibition "Claude Monet", Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, October 11, 2009 - February 28, 2010. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2009, ISBN 978-3-89202-075-2 .

Web links

Commons : Monet Exhibition - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ City of Wuppertal: Monet exhibition breaks all records. ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Visitors on February 28, 2010: 297,110. Date: March 1, 2010, accessed March 14, 2017. @1@ 2

^ Dessislava Berndt: Claude Monet Part 1 - an exhibition of the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal. In: Public Republic of December 10, 2009, accessed March 14, 2017.

[1] City of Wuppertal: Monet exhibition breaks all records. ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Visitors on February 28, 2010: 297,110. Date: March 1, 2010, accessed March 14, 2017. @1@ 2

[2] Dessislava Berndt: Claude Monet Part 1 - an exhibition of the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal. In: Public Republic of December 10, 2009, accessed March 14, 2017.