Gustave Caillebotte: an Impressionist and Photography

In autumn, the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany) will dedicate a comprehensive exhibition featuring about fifty paintings and drawings to the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. While a critical examination of Caillebotte is still in its early stages in Germany, this distinguished artist has already assumed his rightful place among the art-loving public in France, Great Britain, and the United States.

Caillebotte’s oeuvre offers new, fundamental, and complementary ways to approach French Impressionist painting: his radical, highly modern, and photographic depictions very convincingly reveal the close connection between photography and painting in the development of a new way of seeing. Numerous of Caillebotte’s works anticipate a photographic perspective – especially in the particular angle of view and the way the images are cropped, but also in their approach to themes like movement and abstraction – that does not emerge in the medium of photography itself until later.

Consequently, the exhibition will also incorporate more than one hundred outstanding examples of photography from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and in so doing will convey a clear idea of Caillebotte’s role as a trailblazer.

Dates: through January 20.
Location: The Schirn Kunsthalle. Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Schaumainkai 71, D-60596 Frankfurt. Germany.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 10am to 7pm. Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 10pm.