David von Becker
New presentation of the Hasso Platter Collection
Since September 2020, the Hasso Plattner Collection with its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces has been on permanent display at the Museum Barberini. In 2022, eight new acquisitions were added to the collection, including a painting from Claude Monet's famous series of British Houses of Parliament. The rehang allowed all new acquisitions to be integrated into a thematic sequence of rooms for the first time. With masterpieces by Gustave Caillebotte, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, and Maurice de Vlaminck, among others, the collection provides a uniquely coherent and comprehensive representation of French Impressionist landscape painting.
David von Becker
David von Becker
May 2023 – The Hasso Plattner Collection takes visitors through the history of French Impressionism in over 110 works by 20 artists - from its beginnings in the mid-19th century to its further development by the Neo-Impressionists and Fauvists. With 38 paintings by Claude Monet, nowhere in Europe outside of Paris are more works by this artist gathered in one place. Potsdam is thus one of the world's most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting.
With the new hanging, the collection presentation was comprehensively revised and expanded to include additional rooms of the Palais Barberini. In addition to a room devoted to landscape painting by the Fauvists (with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Auguste Herbin, among others), the completely refurbished rooms include a room dedicated to Claude Monet's series. Among the 40 works by this artist in the Hasso Plattner Collection are two variations each from the Water-Lilies and the Grainstacks series, as well as a painting from the Houses of Parliament series.
"The new presentation of the permanent collection illustrates how dynamic and active the Hasso Plattner Collection is. We have now integrated all the new acquisitions from 2022 into a thematic sequence of rooms, including the four additional works by Claude Monet. A highlight of the presentation is a new thematic room on his late series paintings, in which his water lilies and ricks of grain enter into an impressive dialogue."
"With one of the world's most important Impressionist collections, we have unique curatorial opportunities. Changes in the presentation of the works allow us to place the works in new dialogues and keep the house exciting for regular visitors as well."
The Hasso Plattner Collection also remains the starting point for planning the further exhibition program. Thus, Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland, starting on July 8, presents the specifically Dutch interpretation of Impressionist influences. From November 18, Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth will focus for the first time on landscape depictions in Edvard Munch's oeuvre. Exhibitions on Maurice de Vlaminck, Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac are also planned from 2024.