The work of the French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) marked the most profound and perhaps most radical transformation in painting since the French Revolution. He brought about a shift in 19th-century art history that was as unexpected as it was sudden, and paved the way for modernism.
Today, Manet’s work has long been part of our visual culture, its astonishing diversity is still an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration. The exhibition D’après Manet at Galerie Michael Haas brings together works by 51 artists whose creative output continues to be inspired by Manet’s legacy and who pay tribute to him by quoting or parodying his paintings and drawings, adapting them in their own distinctive styles and opening up entirely new perspectives for us, the viewers.
