Monet – Cézanne – Matisse
The Scharf Collection
12 Mar – 9 Aug 2026
Date
12 Mar – 9 Aug 2026
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 16 € / concessions 12 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
The Scharf Collection – a German private collection of French art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and international contemporary art – is being presented for the first time.
Despite many wartime losses, Gerstenberg’s daughter Margarethe Scharf was able to save the majority of the collection and bequeath it to her two sons Walther and Dieter Scharf.
Following the division of the collection between the grandchildren, Walther Scharf, his wife Eve and son René developed the French focus further and added works by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, among others. Today, René Scharf and his wife Christiane Scharf specialise in international contemporary artists, including works by Sam Francis, Daniel Richter and Katharina Grosse. With a particular interest in the boundaries of the medium of painting and the relationship between figurative and abstract pictorial worlds, they have brought the family tradition of collecting into the present day.
An exhibition by the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Junge Frau mit Blumenhut, 1877-1879
Paul Cézanne, Flusslandschaft mit Häusern, circa 1904
Henri Matisse, Ikarus, Tafel VIII aus der Folge Jazz (Buch aus zwanzig Illustrationen sowie Texten), 1947
Exhibition Catalogue
Hrsg. Kunstpalast, Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | 244 S. | 200 meist farb. Abb. | 23,5 x 28,5 cm | deutsch | Hardcover
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