Gustave Caillebotte
Paris 1848 - Gennevilliers 1894
The Floor Scrapers,1875
Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 x 57 1/2 inches
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Gustave Caillebotte: An Impressionist and Photography
GERMANY
FRANKFURT • Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt • 18 October 2012 - 20 January 2013
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The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is devoting an exhibition of paintings, pastels and drawings to Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). Whereas in Germany the life and work of Caillebotte are only now beginning to spark interest and appreciation, in France, the United Kingdom and in the United States the artist is considered a star of Impressionism. His radical, very modern, photography-like depictions provide insight into the close relationship between photography and painting in the evolution of a new way of seeing. Thanks to the unusual perspectives resulting from the way, Caillebotte framed his windows on the world, may of his works anticipate a photographic view which would only gradually evolve in that medium.The exhibition thus also encompasses examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography as a way of calling attention to Caillebotte´s pioneering role.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Website
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
60311 Frankfur
Germany
Tel: (49) 69-29 98 82-0
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