--- type: exposition title: Looking at Monet language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/looking-monet-0" --- # Looking at Monet ## The Great Impressionist and His Influence on Austrian Art ![Oil on canvas 89.5 x 92.3 cm](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_439886223370.jpg.webp?itok=58gnBXe4) **Duration:** 24 October 2014 - 8 February 2015 The 2014 autumn exhibition in the Belvedere’s Orangery shows impressionist icons in an overview which is unique throughout Europe. At the same time, the impressionist influence on the Austrian art scene will be in the focus of the exhibition. Containing first class loans from international museums and private lenders, the exhibition gathers key pieces by Claude Monet, some of which have never been shown in Austria.?18 years after the legendary 1996 Monet exhibition, the Belvedere builds another spectacular special show around the master of the impressionist light painting. The show focuses on the idea of Monet as source of inspiration for contemporary artists, who took their inspiration from his motives and brushwork.?Selected works by the pioneer of modernism enter into a dialogue with Austrian artists, who, after getting in contact with Monet‘s work, were referencing to it in their own works. Besides Edouard Manet, the Viennese art scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regarded Monet as the central and formative figure of French Impressionism. His works were on display in exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus, the Secession, and the legendary Miethke Gallery and were known to his contemporaries from periodicals and books. The most outstanding show, entitled The Evolution of Impressionism in Painting and Sculpture, was held at the Vienna Secession in 1903, where the Modern Gallery (the institution preceding today’s Österreichische Galerie Belvedere) acquired Monet’s painting The Chef (Monsieur Paul); later on, Fishermen on the Seine at Poissy and one of his masterpieces, Garden Path at Giverny, were added to the collection. Monet’s influence on Austrian painters and photographers was immediate and multifaceted. Some artists adopted his stylistic handling, while others were interested in his pictorial motifs, compositions, or conceptual approaches. The exhibition at the Belvedere assembles works by the exceptional French painter that were either on view in Vienna around 1900 or served as models and presents them together with selected paintings and photographs by Austrian artists active during the period in question. Both this juxtaposition and historical documents will allow us to trace Monet’s impact on domestic art production, such as by Gustav Klimt, Emil Jakob Schindler, Max Weiler,?Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel. ## Impressions - ![Oil on canvas 80.2 x 80.2 cm — Gustav Klimt, Attersee, 1900 — © Leopold Museum, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223390.jpg.webp?itok=bxPmCml-) - ![Oil on canvas 87.5 x 113 cm — Franz Jaschke, At the Donaulände, 1903 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223388.jpg.webp?itok=3U75V5Gb) - ![Oil on canvas 64.5 x 52.1 cm — Claude Monet, The Cook, 1882 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223385.jpg.webp?itok=O7N1MvZb) - ![Oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm — Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1903 — © Denver Art Museum Collection: Funds from Helen Dill bequest](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223376.jpg.webp?itok=f88EFDT-) - ![Eitempera on canvas 256 x 608 cm — Max Weiler, Nature with Caput mortuum, 1974 — © Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H., Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223372.jpg.webp?itok=Gi8C_4jR) - ![Oil on canvas 73.7 x 100.3 cm Purchased 1914 — Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge: the Sun in a fog, 1903 — © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223364.jpg.webp?itok=2AEYn8G_) - ![Oil on canvas 73.82 x 98.11 cm — Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, ca. 1900 (dated 1903) — © Milwaukee Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Albert T. Friedmann Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223363.jpg.webp?itok=XJQ0Sppf) - ![Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm — Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1914-1917 — © Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel / Photo: © Robert Bayer, Basel](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223366.jpg.webp?itok=yXrWmfzo) - ![Oil on canvas 59.8 x 81.7 cm — Claude Monet, Fisher on the Seine at Poissy, 1882 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223365.jpg.webp?itok=a3-NFAS6) - ![IM LICHTE MONETS — Exhibition view "Looking at Monet" — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223387.jpg.webp?itok=yc7RWg0f) - ![IM LICHTE MONETS — Exhibition view "Looking at Monet" — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223386.jpg.webp?itok=GGGmPVe1) - ![IM LICHTE MONETS — Exhibition view "Looking at Monet" — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223368.jpg.webp?itok=WmukE4pK)