Züricher Kunstgesellschaft

Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism—these are still the most important stylistic labels which acted as slogans for French painting during the 19th century. At that time, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, and many others left the "straight and narrow" of painting, the academic-neo-classical manner. Highly controversial at the time, today these painters are celebrated worldwide as precursors of Modernism. The situation is very different...

Wilhelm Leibl: The Art of Seeing by Albertina Wien, Bernhard von Waldkirch, Marianne von Manstein, and Züricher Kunstgesellschaft explores the work of Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900), who is regarded as one of the most significant portraitists and a key figure in European Realism. This volume includes large-format illustrations of 40 paintings and 60 drawings, accompanying the first comprehensive museum exhibition focused...