Themed tour
Varieties of abstraction
Monet – Cézanne – Matisse. The Scharf Collection
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Paul Cézanne, River Landscape with Houses, circa 1904, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81 cm © The Scharf Collection, Photo: Ruland Photodesign
Please note: this tour will be held in German.
In this themed tour, we focus on the varieties of abstraction. Impressionist artists had already begun to simplify, dissolve, or rearrange the visible world. Forms became areas of color, contours lost their sharpness, and light and mood took center stage rather than precise detail. This created an tension between representationalism and dissolution, a transition in which modern abstraction is already laid out.