The Honest Eye: The Impressionist Pissarro
With Camille Pissarro, an outsider became a central figure within the Impressionist collective. Born in the Caribbean, he came to France in 1855, sensed the anti-academic upsurge in painting, and attracted like-minded people. With their revolutionary style of painting, they founded the Impressionist movement.
Hasso Plattner Collection
Camille Pissarro: Boulevard Montmartre, Twilight, 1897
Hasso Plattner Collection
Camille Pissarro: The Louvre, Morning, Spring, 1902
Pissarro also experimented with the pointillism of the younger artists and was the only painter to take part in all eight Impressionist exhibitions in Paris. With around 80 landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings from about 50 international collections, the exhibition The Honest Eye: The Impressionist Pissarro gives a broad overview of his entire oeuvre and shows the social utopian implications of his art.
In cooperation with the Denver Art Museum, where the exhibition will be shown from October 26, 2025, to February 8, 2026.
From September 14, 2024, to January 5, 2025 the Museum Barberini presented a small selection of prints by Camille Pissarro. The presentation of twenty prints from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin offered a foretaste of the major retrospective taking place this year.