Japan's Love for Impressionism

This edition was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Japan's Love for Impressionism” at the Bundeskunsthalle. The catalogue presents French Impressionist art held in Japanese collections, and includes some of the major works of the Impressionist movement. At the heart of the exhibition and the book are masterpieces by French Impressionist and Post‑Impressionist artists, among them Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Bonnard, Pissarro, Renoir, Signac, Sisley, and van Gogh. Their paintings are complemented by a selection of works by Japanese artists from the period before 1920 that laid the foundation for modern, Westerninspired Japanese art. Together, they tell the story of the interaction and two‑way artistic influence between Europe and Japan from a new perspective.