Claude
Monet
Nymphéas, 1916-1919
Sam
Francis
Round the World, 1958/59
Jackson
Pollock
Untitled, c. 1949
Pipilotti
Rist
Video still (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler, 1988 (detail)
A
water lily pond and a garden he created himself in the small village of Giverny,
near Paris, was the starting point at the turn of the century for Claude Monet's
pioneering development as a painter. The significance and extent of his achievement
was not fully grasped until after the Second World War. Now, at the beginning
of the 21st century, a large number of paintings ranging from Monet via painterly
abstraction right up to digital Impressionism are being shown in this exhibition
in order to explore the path Monet followed.