Laura Junger
Alfred Sisley
Born 1839 in Paris
Died 1899 in Moret-sur-Loing
In his plein air painting, Sisley devoted himself above all to the sky and the water. Over the course of decades, he studied the Seine River and its changing use amid burgeoning technological progress.
David von Becker
After a trade apprenticeship in London, Sisley returned to Paris in 1861 and began his studies in art. From 1862 on he attended the atelier of the history painter Charles Gleyre, where he met Frédéric Bazille, Monet, and Renoir. The friends joined together for extended painting excursions on the Seine River and in the forest of Fontainebleau.
From 1872 on, Sisley lived in Louveciennes, where he continued to develop his Impressionist style. In 1874 he helped organize the first Impressionist exhibition together with Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro. In 1879 he withdrew to the region around Moret-sur-Loing.
Sisley in the collection
Alfred Sisley is represented with twelve 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.
