From 25 September 2024 to 12 January 2025, the Kupferstichkabinett presents “The Other Impressionism: International prints from Manet to Whistler”
Supply: Kupferstichkabinett / – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Picture: Édouard Manet, “The races”, 1865, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Sunrises, water lilies, gentle and shadow results: Virtually everybody has an concept of what constitutes an impressionist portray. However what most individuals don’t take into consideration are works of printmaking – can there even be Impressionist artwork on this medium? In black and white, in an version and with the technical challenges that make the spontaneity so attribute of Impressionism seemingly not possible?
In its exhibition, the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett is exhibiting treasures of “other” Impressionism, most of which have by no means or not often been proven earlier than – with 110 works by 40 artists, together with Édouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, James Whistler and Lesser Ury. Utilizing new or rediscovered strategies, the “other” Impressionism introduced atmospheric moods to paper: impressions of shadows, vapour and smog, haze and rain, evening and electrical gentle. As authentic prints, that they had the magic and dynamism of hand drawings and have been subsequently considered the epitome of inventive individuality. A few of them have been created instantly in entrance of nature.
From the mid-1850s, artists equivalent to Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny met within the forest of Fontainebleau. They experimented with the proto-photographic strategy of cliché verre, utilizing the solar itself to reveal their hand-drawn glass plate negatives. From 1862 onwards, painters equivalent to Édouard Manet, Johann Barthold Jongkind and Francis Seymour Haden have been impressed by Rembrandt’s etchings and used them to create their very own works. Some, equivalent to Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas or later the Dutchman Charles Storm van’s Gravesande, reworked their printing plate after every printing course of. This resulted in “state prints”, i.e. new originals inside a collection. From the Eighties onwards, lithographers equivalent to Paul Signac and Eugène Carrière have been fascinated by shadows, by immateriality, and created picturesque and mysterious impressions.
