Video about the exhibition: Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionism

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The number of outstanding works that passed through Paul Cassirer’s hands and have made art history is virtually endless. Today, many of them are key pieces in public and private collections around the world.

Here you can learn more about five selected paintings that were once part of Cassirer’s art salon but are not on view in their original form in the exhibition *Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionism*. The curators responsible for the collection present the works and their respective histories.

The short films show

• Yoshiyuki Furutani: Vincent van Gogh, Daubigny’s Garden, 1890, oil on canvas, 53.2 x 103.5 cm, Hiroshima Museum of Art
• Isolde Pludermacher: Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass [Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe], 1863, oil on canvas, 207 x 265 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
• Dr. Dorothee Hansen: Claude Monet, Camille, 1866, oil on canvas, 231 x 151 cm, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen
• Dr. Dorothee Hansen: Vincent van Gogh, Poppy Field, 1889, oil on canvas, 72 x 91 cm, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen
• Elsa Smithgall: Auguste Renoir, The Rowers' Breakfast, 1880–1881, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 175.6 cm, The Phillips Collection, Washington