Impressionism
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Impressionism is a style of art, which developed in the 1860s in France, establishing an emotional, light and airy, colorful and very nature-loving style of painting, which constituted a contrast to the strict and stagnant studio art. It originated from a small group of young artists, who exhibited their very atmospheric, ease-radiant paintings together for the first time in 1874.
They were influenced by Boudin's plein-air painting and by Corot and Courbet who painted by the inspiration of nature and life. The new style of painting was summarized under the name "Impressionism". The nickname "Impressionism" for the new style emanated from Claude Monet's marine painting "Impression, Sunrise", which was exhibited in 1874. This style united some of the greatest artists of modern art: Pissarrot, Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Degas, and Cézanne, only to name a few of them.
The artists Monet, Renoir, Bazille Pissarrot and Sisley, the core of the later group of Impressionists, got to know each other in 1860 at the Paris-based Académie Suisse and in the studio of Charles Gleyre and started painting outdoors together. Their pictures were characterized by constantly brightening colors and already exhibited in several salons. They tried to depict nature in its shades of color caused by the play of sunlight. Subsequently, the "Impressionists", who soon assumed and established this labeling, depicted solidly contoured objects in shimmering atmospheric, juxtaposed blurs of color, using traditional local colors.
The shapes dissolve in favor of the colors. From this subjective-harmonious blistering-moving style of painting, relating to the moment, the Impressionists developed a new and immediate vision. The Impressionism reached its peak in 1876 and then subsided slowly. It was only around the year 1886, when it was increasingly recognized when young artists followed and integrated the Impressionist principles into their new style, the Neo-Impressionism. The incredible interest in Impressionism becomes visible if we take Claude Monet for an example. He was mocked for his early work. From 1883, however, with his late water-lily cycles, he was considered a successful and famous Impressionist. Also in today's times, it enjoys large popularity due to its lightness and joy of life.
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 Cezanne, Paul |
Renoir, Pierre Auguste |
Pissarro, Camille |
| Monet, Claude |
Degas, Edgar |
Gauguin, Paul |
| Gogh, Vincent Willem van |
Sisley, Alfred |
Seurat, Georges |
| Boudin, Eugene |
Peel, Paul |
Percy, Sidney Richard |
| Cassatt, Mary |
Toulouse Lautrec, Henri de |
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill |
| Corinth, Lovis |
Ziem, Felix |
Macke, August |
| Manet, Edouard |
Grigorescu, Nicolae |
Normann, Adelsteen |
| Kroyer, Peder Severin |
Chase, William Merritt |
Sargent, John Singer |
| Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin |
Steele, Theodore Clement |
Boldini, Giovanni |
| DeCamp, Joseph |
Caillebotte, Gustave |
Duveneck, Frank |
| Ancher, Anna |
Kanoldt, Edmund |
Sterl, Robert |
| Morisot, Berthe |
Hassam, Childe |
Liebermann, Max |
| Guillaumin, Jean Baptiste Armand |
Valletton, Felix |
Ury, Lesser |
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Oil Paintings