articles/Monet takes centre stage at blockbuster exhibition at Stdel — theartnewspaper.com

Claude Monet, Le Déjeuner: Panneau Decorative, around 1873, Musée d’Orsay. Photo: bpk/RMN-Grand Palais/Hervé Lewandowski When the curator Felix Krämer began work on “Monet and the Birth of Impressionism”, which opens at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt on 11 March, he was going to call it simply, “The Birth of Impressionism”. But he soon decided that Claude Monet was the key, because the artist’s early work of the 1860s had such an influence on his avant-garde colleagues. Hence the decision to give the French artist star billing and allow his works to dominate the show.

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