Edouard Manet (exhibition Wuppertal)

The Von der Heydt Museum with a large-scale advertisement for the exhibition

The Edouard Manet exhibition took place from October 24, 2017 to February 25, 2018 in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . The overview show on Édouard Manet tried to show his “relationship to politics, worldview and society in France in the 19th century”. More than 100,000 visitors saw the exhibition.

The exhibition

The Manet show in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal was one of the few exhibitions in Germany that has so far been dedicated to this artist. Manet, who died at the age of 51, left behind a relatively small oeuvre with only around 450 paintings . Many museums only have one or a few works by the painter and rarely or not at all loan them out. In some cases this is not possible for conservation reasons, such as the large Mannheim version of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico , and in some cases donors have forbidden the loan of works, such as the pictures in the Winterthur Oskar Reinhart collection "Am Römerholz" . In the preparation for the exhibition in Wuppertal there were further difficulties. Some pictures have already been confirmed for other themed exhibitions taking place at the same time. For example, the Kunsthaus Zürich presented the show Celebrated & Mocked in the overlapping period from November 2017 to January 2018 . French painting 1820–1880 , which also featured works by Manet. In addition, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris sent large parts of its own Manet holdings on a tour to Milan from March to July 2017 and did not want to loan these works again shortly afterwards. Ultimately, only the small-format still life The Lemon came from Manet's Musée d'Orsay to Wuppertal, and it was not on view at the exhibition in the Palazzo Reale in Milan . Other potential lenders may have been reluctant, as they had only made works available for the exhibition Manet - Seeing Manet's Portrait Portraits in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2016 . Before that, in German-speaking last 2002-2003 in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , the exhibition Edouard Manet and the Impressionists to see which mainly dealt with Manet's work from the 1870th In contrast to these thematically focused exhibitions, the aim of the Wuppertal exhibition was to show the whole of Manet, from his beginnings in Thomas Couture's studio to the works from the last months of his life.

Museum director Gerhard Finckh had previously organized a series of high-profile exhibitions on various impressionist artists . These included exhibitions on Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Claude Monet Alfred Sisley , Camille Pissarro , Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin . The Manet show also featured works by these artists, an attempt to show Manet's work in the context of the work of his contemporaries. The museum was able to include some works from its own house, for example by Monet, Renoir or Manet's teacher couture, but some of the works also came from other houses, for example pictures by Frédéric Bazille or Gustave Caillebotte . The focus, however, was on the works of Èdouard Manet, of whom the Von der Heydt Museum itself has only two lesser-known pictures from his early work with Thistle and Der Fischer . With more than 40 loans of Manet paintings from numerous museums and collections, the Von der Heydt Museum was able to show an overview of his work, including early works such as Jupiter and Antiope, based on the Italian model, and pictures based on Spanish influence such as guitar and Spanish Hat showed. There were also several portraits of his wife Suzanne and his later sister-in-law Berthe Morisot , some pictures of the sea and a group of still lifes. In addition, there were pictures of modern life such as The Croquet Game , The Longchamp Racecourse or The Suicide and a number of portraits of women such as The Amazon or Lady with a Fan . Among the few major works in the exhibition were the paintings shown by Manet in the Salon de Paris The Artist and Beim Père Lathuille, outdoors . The journalist Michael Kohler wrote about the supposed lack of top works in art - Das Kunstmagazin : “Without ... the modern icons, the view of the second row of Manet's work becomes free. So works, while not passed into the history books, where the most important painters of the 19th century, but often equally dedicated enough dedication. "So, the well-known works such as found Olympic and Breakfast in the countryside , although only as reproductions of the paintings in the Exhibition, but could at least be shown as an etching in the original. In addition to a pastel picture by Manet, there were also some drawings and watercolors in the exhibition. Elsewhere, the exhibition deepened the topic of Manet and photography and showed, for example, pictures from the family album. The rarely seen compilations included a series of garden pictures from Rueil , or the portraits of Édouard Manet and Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran each created by the other . Accompanying the exhibition there was an introductory film and expert tours and a series of lectures were offered. In addition, an extensive exhibition catalog was published.

Manet's paintings in the exhibition

image	title	Year of origin	Format in cm	Catalog raisonné	Collection, place
	Jupiter and Antiope	1856	47 × 85 cm	RW 009	Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris
	thistle	1858	65 × 54 cm	RW 016	From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal
	Woman with mug	1858	56 x 47.2 cm	RW 020	Ordrupgaard Museum Charlottenlund
	Lady with a fan	1862	90 × 113 cm	RW 048	Szépművészeti Múzeum Budapest
	Portrait of a man	1860	61 × 50 cm	RW 027	Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo
	Still life - guitar and Spanish hat	1862	77.5 × 121.5 cm	RW 060	Musée Calvet Avignon
	Child portrait, the little tall one	around 1861	115 × 72 cm	RW 061	State Art Gallery Karlsruhe Karlsruhe
	The ship deck	around 1860	56.4 x 47 cm	RW 064	National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
	The fisherman	1863	46 × 56 cm	RW 065	From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal
	The steamship, seascape with porpoises	1868	81.4 x 100.3 cm	RW 079	Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia
	Longchamp racetrack	1864	44 × 84 cm	RW 098	Art Institute of Chicago Chicago
	Madame Edouard Manet	around 1873	100.3 x 78.4 cm	RW 117	Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
	Young man peeling a pear	1868	85 × 71 cm	RW 130	Swedish National Museum Stockholm
	Berthe Morisot with Muff	around 1869	73 × 60 cm	RW 138	Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland
	The Amazon - Portrait Marie Lefébure	around 1870–1875	88 × 116 cm	RW 160	Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo
	The port of Bordeaux	1871	65 × 100 cm	RW 164	Private collection
	Portrait of the reclining Berthe Morisot	1873	26 × 34 cm	RW 209	Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris
	Oloron-Sainte Marie	1871	42.5 × 62.5 cm	RW 163	EG Bührle Collection Foundation, Zurich
	The Arcachon Basin	1871	37 × 56 cm	RW 166	EG Bührle Collection Foundation, Zurich
	Black boat near Berck	1873	20 × 33 cm	RW 195	Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Cologne
	Ships off Berck-sur-Mer	1873	34 x 55.8 cm	RW 197	Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland
	On the beach at Berck-sur-Mer	1873	56 × 73 cm	RW 198	Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford (Connecticut)
	Marine à Berck-sur-mer / fishing boats and fishermen	1873	49.2 x 79.7 cm	RW 201	Gray Art Gallery New York City
	The croquet game	1873	72 × 106 cm	RW 211	Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
	The artist	1875	192 × 128 cm	RW 244	Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo
	Portrait of the friend Carolus Duran	1876	189 × 170 cm	RW 245	Barber Institute of Fine Arts Birmingham
	The suicide	between 1877 and 1881	38 × 46 cm	RW 258	EG Bührle Collection Foundation, Zurich
	Mme Manet in the winter garden	1879	81 × 100 cm	RW 290	National Museum Oslo Oslo
	At Père Lathuille, outdoors	1879	92 × 112 cm	RW 291	Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai
	Portrait of Monsieur Brun	around 1879	192 x 104.2 cm	RW 326	National Museum of Western Art Tokyo
	Woman with cat	1880-1882	92.1 x 73 cm	RW 337	National Gallery on permanent loan from Tate Gallery London
	Flower basket	around 1880	65 × 81 cm	RW 342	Private collection
	The lemon	1880-1881	14 × 21 cm	RW 360	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Young woman with cape	1881	55 × 35 cm	RW 374	Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon
	The rabbit	1881	97.5 × 60 cm	RW 376	National Museum Cardiff Cardiff
	The Amazon	1882-1883	73 × 52 cm	RW 394	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
	Garden avenue in Rueil	1882	82 × 66 cm	RW 402	Art Museum Bern Bern
	Garden avenue in Rueil	1882	61 × 50 cm	RW 403	Musée des Beaux – Arts Dijon
	Country house in Rueil	1882	92 × 73 cm	RW 406	National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
	Country house in Rueil	1882	73 × 92 cm	RW 407	National Gallery Berlin
	Roses and tulips in a vase	1882	54 × 33 cm	RW 422	Private collection
	The melon	around 1880–1881	32.6 x 44.1 cm	without	National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
	The explosion	unknown	37.5 × 45.5 cm	without (authorship disputed)	Museum Folkwang Essen
	Entombment of Christ	unknown	14.2 x 23.6 cm	without (authorship disputed)	Museum landscape Hessen Kassel Kassel
	Woman with black hat (pastel)	1882	54 × 45 cm	RW II 87	Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Rau Collection for UNICEF) Remagen

literature

• Gerhard Finckh (ed.): Edouard Manet . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2017, ISBN 3-89202-098-1 .

Web links

Commons : Edouard Manet Exhibition  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Website of the Manet exhibition in the Von der Heydt Museum
• From the Heydt Museum Manet: 45 loans from all over the world , article in the Wuppertaler Rundschau on October 13, 2017
• Edouard Manet's retrospective at the Von-der-Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . Article in the Westfälischer Anzeiger on October 20, 2017
• Nicole Bolz: From the Heydt Museum Manet exhibition: Without icing and pathos , article in the Wuppertaler Rundschau on October 22, 2017
• Bertram Müller: The enriched Manet , article in the Rheinische Post from October 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thematic description on the exhibition website.
2. ↑ Manet exhibition in Wuppertal attracted 100,000 visitors , article on www.welt.de
3. ↑ Michael Kohler: Shine without parade pieces , article in art - Das Magazin, November 2017 issue, p. 121.
4. ↑ The information refers to the catalog raisonné by Rouart and Wildenstein from 1975
5. ↑ Not included in the catalog raisonné from 1975, is exhibited by the Kassler Museum as “attributed to Manet”, see information on the museum's website