The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism

Camille Pissarro, Plum Trees in Blossom, Éragny, 1894, Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund.

With Camille Pissarro, an outsider became a central figure within the Impressionist collective. Born in the Caribbean, he came to France in 1855, sensed the anti-academic upsurge in painting, and attracted like-minded people. With their revolutionary style of painting, they founded the Impressionist movement.

Pissarro is considered the founding figure of the Impressionist movement in France and is the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions in Paris. His artistic beginnings lay in the Caribbean and South America. These roots were combined with a painterly interest in everyday rural scenes and sympathies for anarchism. Based on the seven paintings by Pissarro in the Hasso Plattner Collection, the exhibition The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism provides an overview of his entire oeuvre based on over 100 landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes and figure paintings from around 50 international collections, including the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and at the same time shows the social utopian ideas of his art.