Museum Barberini presents an exhibition dedicated to Impressionism in Holland

From 8 July to 22 October 2023, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam presents the exhibition “Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland.”

Source: Museum Barberini, Potsdam · Image: Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, “On the Dunes of Zandvoort”, 1892, Museum Singer Laren

Organised in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, “Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland” presents around a hundred works by artists such as Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincent van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Piet Mondrian.

On the exhibition website, the museum explains that “landscape painting originated in Holland, and the realism of the seventeenth-century Old Masters long set the standard. With the development of plein air painting in France, nineteenth-century Dutch artists found new inspiration. Painters of the Hague School captured nature’s changing moods of light in vast, cloudy skies using a wide range of grays. Beginning in the 1880s, Impressionist influences from France sparked an interest in cityscapes and images of modern life, followed by the unleashing of color in the painting of Pointillism.”

“Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland” is one of the many exhibitions dedicated to Impressionism and its influence in various parts of Europe that have opened in this 2023. Highlights include “After Impressionism“, on view at the National Gallery in London until 13 August, and “Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism“, on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery until 10 September. In addition, on 25 November the Royal Academy in London will open “Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec“.