Vive L'Impressionnisme
Van Gogh Museum
Vive L'Impressionnisme
Van Gogh Museum
Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Vive l'impressionnisme!
Vive l’impressionnisme! Masterpieces from Dutch collections
Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum
until 26 January 2025
150 years ago, the first official exhibition of a group of artists known today as the Impressionists took place in Paris.
From Paris, this new art movement eventually found its way to the Netherlands.
Until 26 January 2025, the Van Gogh Museum is showing the not-so-easy journey of Impressionism from the Parisian studios to the Dutch collections in a special exhibition.
The exhibition has been organised together with the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and features works from the Stedelijk Museum, Rijksmuseum, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and De Mesdag Collectie Den Haag, among others.
With works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro and many more.
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Exhibition:
Vive l’impressionnisme! Masterpieces from Dutch collections
Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum
11 October until 26 January 2025
Opening hours:
11 October to 3 November: 9.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. Fridays until 9.00 p.m.
4 November to 20 December: 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. Fridays until 9.00 p.m.
Christmas openings: 21 to 23 December: 9.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
24 to 26 December: 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
27 December: 9.00 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
28 to 30 December: 9.00 – 6.00 p.m.
31 December: 9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Prices:
Official website:
EUR 22 for adults
Free entry for all under 18 years
With us: EUR 24 for adults
free entry for all under 18 years
By purchasing through us you would be supporting our work. Thank you 😀
Audio guide:
EUR 3.75 for adults
It can also be booked with our ticket.
Führungen:
Guided tours:
Can be booked on the official website.
Private guided tours for EUR 105 per group (NL/EN)
Public guided tours for EUR 5 extra. (English every Saturday and Sunday at 1.45 pm)
ICOM card:
Free admission for ICOM members. However, a time slot must be booked. Can be selected on the official website.
Impressionism’s journey from the Parisian studios to the Dutch collections was not an easy one.
Initial reactions were muted, and the new art movement shocked rather than inspired the Dutch to buy.
Thanks to a dedicated group of Dutch people with connections in Paris, their compatriots were ultimately convinced of the quality of the works. So tastes really can change 😀
One of them was Theo van Gogh, which is why the exhibition is being held here. Theo was not only Vincent’s younger brother, but also an art dealer and collector.
The Exhibition
Vive L'Impressionnisme
VIVE l’impressionnisme exclusively shows works of art that are still in Dutch collections today. For once, Van Gogh is not the star in this exhibition, but part of a movement and shares the space with Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Rodin or Morisot and many of their contemporaries.
What might surprise some visitors is the versatility of the artworks created under the ‘Impressionism’ label.
At the Van Gogh Museum, you will not only see the well-known colourful works of Pissarro, painted with loose brushstrokes. There are also prints in black and white, watercolours and impressive sculptures by Rodin and Degas, for example, which demonstrate the way in which Impressionist artists used and varied traditional techniques according to their own ideas.
Note: You will come across versions of sculptures that you have mentally memorised in Paris, but which can also be found in the Netherlands.
These include the Age of Honour and Eve by Rodin and the 14-year-old Dancer by Degas.
Let’s take a quick look at the latter.
Note from Céline: To be honest, I didn’t realise that there are several versions of this sculpture. But surprise: there are actually 25! I was aware of the one in the Musée d’Orsay. The version in this exhibition comes from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Both bronze casts known to us and the other 23 were made after Degas’ death. The original was made of wax, with her real hair, tutu and shoes, and looked so realistic that it caused a scandal at the Impressionist exhibition in 1881. The likeness of the ‘14-year-old dancer’, the Belgian ballerina Marie van Goethem, was compared to an ape or an Aztec. She looked somehow ‘mistreated’, had the coarse features of a working-class girl, a face in which all the vices of her character would show. And somehow that is true: Degas wanted to show unvarnished reality. It seemed as if Degas had taken her directly from the stage of the Opera Garnier and placed her on a pedestal.
Conclusion
What makes this exhibition so special is the fact that you get to see works on loan that are normally in private collections and not accessible to the public.
The Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, which is partially closed due to extensive renovation work, and the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, which should not be on any Amsterdam visitor’s itinerary due to its geographical location, have also sent works to Amsterdam. For this reason alone, you should definitely seize the opportunity.
The Van Gogh Museum is a crowd-puller, so be sure to book early!
We give the exhibition 4.5 out of 5 stars!
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Text and image rights: © Céline Mülich, 2024
With the support of Boris Hermann.
With the permission of the Van Gogh Museum.
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