Conferences
1 April–12 August 2012, Kunstmuseum Basel
Renoir. Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a member of the group of French painters who laid the foundations of Impressionism. With a bright palette, loose brushstrokes, and motifs from modern urban life and leisure in natural settings, Renoir and his fellow Impressionists wrote art history. As a result, the Impressionist period has largely dominated perceptions of Renoir's oeuvre. In a grand survey exhibition, the Kunstmuseum Basel now focuses for the first time on the artist's surprisingly multifaceted early work from the period leading up to his first important Impressionist paintings of the 1870s.
http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/current/renoir-between-bohemia-and-bourgeoisie/
