Impressionism

Featuring around seventy exhibits including paintings, sculptures and pastels, the exhibition focusses on the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s considerable holdings of Impressionist works with the intention of showing them in a broader global context. Against the backdrop of resurgent nationalisms, the question also arises as to whether it still makes sense today to split Impressionism into national categories – and, if so, in which way this impacts our perception. Generally, the Impressionist style is synonymous with France: with artists like Édouard Manet, Claude Monet or Auguste Renoir, with quaint,…