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Located in Potsdam’s historic center, the Museum Barberini is an art museum that was initiated by Hasso Plattner, the founder of the German software company SAP and a patron of the arts. Since its opening in 2017, the Barberini has established itself as one of the most popular museums in Germany with international exhibitions and an extraordinary collection of Impressionist paintings.

Visit the current and future exhibitions at the Museum Barberini Potsdam:

✔ until 12.01.2025: Maurice de Vlaminck. Modern Artist Rebel
✔ until 05.01.2025: Camille Pissarro’s different Impressionism
✔ 15.02.25 - 18.05.25 Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century
✔ 14.06.25 - 28.09.25 The Honest Eye: The Impressionist Pissarro
✔ 25.10.25 - 01.02.26 Unicorn: The Mythical Beast in Art
✔ Permanent exhibition: Impressionism - Masterpieces from the Hasso Plattner Collection

Exhibition: Maurice de Vlaminck. Modern Artist Rebel

Until 12 January 2025, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam is presenting the exhibition ‘Maurice de Vlaminck. Rebel of Modernism’. This first posthumous retrospective in Germany offers a comprehensive insight into the artist's work. Maurice de Vlaminck impressed with his intense colours and dynamic brushstrokes. The exhibition shows 73 selected works that examine his artistic development from the early compositions of the 20th century through cubist experiments to his late landscape paintings.

Exhibition: Camille Pissarro’s different Impressionism

The Museum Barberini in Potsdam is presenting the exhibition "Camille Pissarro’s different Impressionism" until 5 January 2025. The exhibition shows 26 selected works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and offers a foretaste of the major retrospective "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism", which will be on show at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam in summer 2025. This exhibition offers a unique insight into Pissarro's graphic works and shows how he experimented with techniques such as etching, drypoint, aquatint, lithography and monotype to depict a variety of effects of light and shadow. Immerse yourself in the world of Camille Pissarro's prints and experience the diversity of his works, techniques and motifs.

Permanent exhibition: Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection

Beginning on September 5, 2020, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam will present a permanent display of the extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the collection of the museum’s founder, Hasso Plattner, including masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, and Signac. With thirty-four paintings by Monet, there is no venue in Europe outside of Paris where visitors can see more works by this painter.

Masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, and Signac

The holdings of paintings by Caillebotte, Pissarro, Signac, Sisley, and Vlaminck are also unique in Germany. In addition to its temporary exhibitions, the Museum Barberini now showcases a permanent collection that is unparalleled in Germany. This makes Potsdam one of the most important international centers of Impressionist landscape painting.