Camille Pissarro’s different Impressionism
Prints from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the Museum Barberini presented a small selection of prints by Camille Pissarro. The show was intended to parallel the exhibition A Different Impressionism: International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler, presented concurrently at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This “different Impressionism” focused on the multifaceted effects of light and shadow in the black-and-white medium of printmaking.
Henry Freitag
Henry Freitag
Pissarro was one of the few French Impressionists to produce a significant graphic oeuvre. He learned the technical skills of printmaking and experimented as vigorously in that medium as he did in painting, creating etchings, drypoints, aquatints, lithographs, and monotypes to explore the potential of each process. Pissarro’s prints frequently served as inspiration for his painting, bearing witness to their special significance in his oeuvre. The selection of twenty-six prints offered a foretaste of the major retrospective The Honest Eye: The Impressionist Pissarro to be shown at the Museum Barberini in the summer of 2025.
A cooperation of the Museum Barberini and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.