Masters of Impressionism/ Meister Des Impressionismus: A Hisotry of Painting from 1874 to 1926/ Eine Malereigeschichte Von 1874 Bis 1926

by Bluhm, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9783775720922
• ISBN10: 3775720928
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

"Cologne's oldest museum, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud - also referred to simply as "the Wallraf" - is one of the largest classic galleries in Germany, and it possesses the most important collection of Western art from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century in western Germany. Indeed, its collection of Impressionist painting is the largest in all of Germany - not lastly due to the works contained in the Fondation Corboud, which were bequeathed to the Wallraf by the Swiss collector Gerard J. Corboud." "For the first time, the unique treasures of Impressionism that belong to the Wallraf's store of paintings have been assembled in an illustrated volume. Prominence has been given to works by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and many more of the great masters."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

"What freedom, what lightness ... "	p. 10
Plates
The precursors	p. 22
The beginnings	p. 44
The years of the Impressionist exhibitions 1874-1886	p. 52
The mature years	p. 82
Neo-impressionism	p. 108
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and the Pont-Aven group 160
The moderns	p. 180
France - the younger generation	p. 200
Impressionism and symbolism	p. 234
The Germans	p. 248
Catalogue of paintings	p. 287
Artists' biographies	p. 305
Selected bibliography	p. 343
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