Laura Junger
Camille Pissarro
Born 1830 in Charlotte Amalie (Saint Thomas)
Died 1903 in Paris
Pissarro was a bridge builder between generations: as the oldest of the Impressionists, he also experimented with the style of the Neo-Impressionists.
David von Becker
Pissarro was born on Saint Thomas and grew up near Paris. In 1847 he returned to the Caribbean island and worked in his father’s business. After an extended stay in Venezuela, he moved to Paris in 1855. Pissarro enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, but soon moved to the Académie Suisse.
After his works were rejected from the official Salon, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés in 1863. Together with Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, he helped organize the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the mid-1880s, Pissarro met the Neo-Impressionists, whose Divisionist technique he adopted for a short time. In addition to landscapes, he also painted series of views of Paris in the 1890s.
Pissarro in the collection
Camille Pissarro is represented with seven works in the Hasso Plattner Collection, on view in the Museum Barberini as a permanent loan from the Hasso Plattner Foundation. With over 110 paintings of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Gustave Caillebotte, and Paul Signac, the museum in Potsdam is one of the most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting in the world.
