Impressionism as an impression and inspiration in Amsterdam Automatic translate

The masterpieces of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and other prominent representatives of Impressionism will show the Hermitage Amsterdam exhibition center. The exhibition "Impressionism: Sensation and Inspiration" consists of 80 paintings, prints and sculptures of the second half of the XIX and early XX centuries, belonging to the richest collection State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg . The exhibition will present a wide panorama of the artworks of those artists who have defined a new era in the development of art in the context of existing styles and trends.

Hermitage Museum building, Amsterdam

French romanticism is represented by the famous painting by Eugene Delacroix “Lion Hunt in Morocco” (Lion Hunt in Morocco, 1854), neoclassicism is represented by the works of Alexander Canabel and Jean-Leon Gerome “Portrait of Countess Elizabeth Vorontsova-Dashkova” (1873) and the famous “Sale” slaves in Ancient Rome ”(The Sale of a Female Slave in Ancient Rome, 1884). The painting “Landscape with a Plowman” (Landscape with a Plowman, 1860-1865) by Theodore Russo and The Little Lake (The Pond, 1858) by Charles-Francois Daubigny are examples of the Barbizon school, whose traditions developed vividly later in the work of the Impressionists, especially Camille Pissarro

The exposition provides an opportunity to see in one place the works of almost all the outstanding impressionist artists: Alfred Sisley, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet.

Most of the works that are presented in Amsterdam are taken from the collection of the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov and Sergey Schukin, the great Russian patrons who first opened the work of impressionist artists to Russia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thanks to their collaboration with the famous Parisian gallery owner Paul Durand-Ruel (Paul Durand-Ruel, 1831-1922), it was possible to save many works of then unknown and unrecognized artists in the academic French circles.

On September 29 this year, during the renovation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, about 75 works of the brilliant post-impressionist artist will be presented in the second wing of the Amsterdam Hermitage. Spectators will have a unique opportunity to see paintings, drawings and letters of Vincent Van Gogh along with the works of his contemporaries.

Anna Sidorova