The exhibition presents the most important positions and artists of these first and most important artists' colonies.
The Schwaan Art Museum is dedicated to the history of the European artists' colonies in order to make the shared cultural heritage visible. With our exhibition projects, we try to illustrate the special significance of the artists' colonies for the development of European art movements from plein-air painting to Impressionism and from Post-Impressionism to Expressionism.
In the exhibition "Barbizon. Cradle of Modern Landscape Painting." presents the most important positions and artists of this first and most important artists' colony: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau. We also show Eugene Lavieille, Georges Gassies and Ferdinand Chaigneau. The aim is to make visible the discovery of light and its translation into color, which unites all artists in artists' colonies.
