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Impressionism developed in Slovenia, generating a school of significant reputation and increasingly better known. The talent and fame of Slovenian artists such as Ivan GROHAR, Rihard JAKOPIĆ, Matej STERNEN and Matija JAMA have now gone far beyond the borders of this small European state.

In 2013, the exhibition “The Slovenian Impressionists and their times” presented at the Petit Palais in Paris made a strong contribution to discovering and highlighting these artists; Monique LUCENET, in her latest book entitled “The Routes of Impressionisms in Europe” - 2022 Council of Europe Literary Prize - devotes 4 pages to the Slovenian Impressionists...

September 30- Décembre 17, 2023

In September 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir stayed for a little over a month in Guernsey. He painted around fifteen paintings as it chosen bay, on the island’s south clifts, Moulin Huet. He was accompanied by friends including the journalist Paul Lhote and, likely, his partner and model Aline Charigot. 

Having first explored Jersey, his ultimate goal was the rock of Guernsey “on which Victor Hugo cried out for eighteen years”. Renoir’s voyage marked a pivotal period for his art: “ In around 1883, there was a break in my work. I had gone as far as I could with Impressionism and I had reached the conclusion that I did not know how to paint or draw” he wrote! 

Exhibition « Impressionisms Routes in Europe » from 12 to 26 march 2023 

Waasmunster (Belgique, Flandre  Orientale)

For the Impressionisms Routes® network, Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, the use 

of the historic and artistic  tool is fundamental in the training of young Europeans and this in the pure respect of the values of the Council of Europe.

Edmond Verstraeten exhibition in Schwaan (Germany) , April 1-June 17, 2023

Belgian Luminism is an original adaptation of the Impressionist concept of French origin. It exalts the clearest irradiations of light and the search for pictorial effects capable of restoring them...

In 1904 most of the Belgian Impressionists presented themselves under the new banner of the Association "Vie et Lumière" around Emile Claus. The most active luminist focus was then in East Flanders, in the Ghent region as well as in the Lys valley, where Jean Delvin, Léon de Smet and Edmond Verstraeten stood out for the quality and variety of their works.

New member of Impressionisms Routes®

The Solingen Artists' Colony " Black House" Solingen owes its origin not to enthusiasm for a special landscape or as a retreat into a special, even untouched nature, but rather to the commitment and attraction of intellectuals and free spirits.

First and foremost, the work of a very educated, self-confident and emancipated lady - Erna Heinen-Steinhoff (1898-1969) - who, as a muse of the arts, created, cultivated and

developed a literary salon in the manner of the 19th century in Solingen at the beginning of the 1920s, a meeting place for painters, writers, musicians and intellectuals.

Together with her husband, the business journalist and art-loving lyricist Hanns Heinen (1895-1961), Erna Heinen-Steinhoff developed as a muse into an important patron of the arts.

Over the years, the literary protagonists of the "Black House" were joined by three painters. Erwin Bowien (1899-1972), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937-2020) and Amud Uwe Millies (1932-2008).

 Waasmunster, Belgium, Flandre Orientale, March, 12-26, 2023

In cooperation with the Friends Association of Edmond Verstraeten (1870-1956), a world-renowned Belgian impressionist artist, the Impressionisms Routes®  network is organising, from March 12 to 26, 2023 at the Blauewendaal castle in Waasmunster (Belgium), an exhibition tracing the history of Impressionism in Europe.

This exhibition brings together around sixty paintings (High Quality reproductions on canvas) resulting from the cooperation between the Impressionisms Routes © network and numerous museums and cultural spaces in around thirty European countries, as well as around twenty didactic panels describing the movement.

Impressionist who largely irrigated the European continent in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Averoff Museum of Greek Modern Art has operated in Metsovo, district of Ioannina, since August 1988.

The village of Metsovo is a tourist town located at an altitude of 1160 meters in the mountains of Pindus, province of Epirus, whose capital is the town of Ioannina (65000 inhabitants) approximatively 400 km to the north from Athens.

Its permanent exhibition comprises representative works by the major Greek painters, printmakers and sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Gyzis, Lytras, Volanakis, Iakovides, Parthenis, Maleas, Galanis, Hadjikyriakos -Ghikas, Moralis, Tetsis, and many others. The museum’s Collection is regarded as one of the most complete and important of this period.

from March 12 to 26, 2023 at the Blauewendaal castle in Waasmunster (Belgium)

In  cooperation  with  the  Association  of  Friends  of  Edmond  Verstraeten  (1870-1956),  a  world-renowned  Belgian  impressionist  artist,  the  Impressionisms  Routes® network  is  organising,  from March 12 to 26, 2023 at the Blauewendaal castle in Waasmunster (Belgium), an exhibition tracing the history of Impressionism in Europe.

In samenwerking met de vrienden van de VZW Edmond Verstraeten (1870-1956), Vlaamse 

kunstschilder en wereldberoemde Impressionist , organiseert het netwerk Impressionisms 

Routes® , van 12 tot 26 maart 2023 in het kasteel Blauwendael te Waasmunster (België), een tentoonstelling die de geschiedenis van het Impressionisme in Europa verteld.