{"id":83378,"date":"2025-05-16T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=83378"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:39:39","slug":"cezanne-monet-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/cezanne-monet-renoir\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9zanne, Monet, Renoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoirsmalla.jpg\" alt=\"View of a baroque palais\" class=\"wp-image-83381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoirsmalla.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoirsmalla-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A gorgeous exhibition to warm the heart. Lower Belvedere presents highlights from the Museum Langmatt collection of works by the French impressionists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Filled with famous names<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rare chance to see this prestigious private collection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 60 paintings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Sept 25, 2025 &#8211; Feb 8, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lower-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3384\">Lower Belvedere overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Villa to Museum to Vienna<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir3.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait by Renoir\" class=\"wp-image-83385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir3.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir3-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Braid, c. 1886\/1887; Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland; press photo courtesy of the museum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wander into the small town of Baden in the Swiss canton of Aargau, and you find, for example, the ruins of Castle Stein: built over a thousand years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You also find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/jugendstil\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"31716\">Jugendstil<\/a> villa constructed around 1900 for the industrialist Sidney Brown and his wife Jenny Brown-Sulzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of us content ourselves with kindergarten pictures by the kids and a generic framed poster from IKEA, the Browns had higher aspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning in the very late 19th century, the pair accumulated a collection of what was then largely contemporary art. And they did so with a gift for artistic foresight, spotting talent, and taking the right advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, the couple shifted from an early focus on German secessionist works to the French impressionists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine the scene: the Brown&#8217;s take a trip to Paris soon after the start of the new century and return home with a work by Gauguin, one by Monet and several by a certain Paul C\u00e9zanne.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir1.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape painting by Monet\" class=\"wp-image-83383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Claude Monet, Ice Floes at Twilight, 1893; Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland; press photo courtesy of the museum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It certainly beats a plastic Eiffel tower and a postcard of the Jardin des Tuileries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple&#8217;s subsequent acquisition efforts &#8211; conducted at considerable expense &#8211; would result in a remarkably comprehensive and representative collection of French impressionist art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view that collection (which expanded to include other media and eras, such as antique porcelain) in the former family villa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.langmatt.ch\/\">Museum Langmatt<\/a> is temporarily closed for renovation work. This is, however, good news for visitors to Vienna, as the museum has kindly allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lower-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3384\">Lower Belvedere<\/a> to show highlights from the collection in their <em>C\u00e9zanne, Monet, Renoir<\/em> exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality is quite breathtaking. You won&#8217;t normally see such a selection outside the world&#8217;s most prestigious art museums.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir2.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape painting by Cezanne\" class=\"wp-image-83384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir2.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cezannemonetrenoir2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Paul C\u00e9zanne, Trees and Rocks in the Park of the Ch\u00e2teau Noir, c. 1904; Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland; press photo courtesy of the museum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, that small oil painting of Rome? Just a Degas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that innocent postcard-sized portrait? Renoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking Renoir&#8230;such a resonant name in art history. And you find yourself confronted by 22 of his works in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corot and C\u00e9zanne. Boudin and Bonnard. Pissarro. Monet. Sisley. Gauguin&#8230;what a treat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intensity of the collection and the broadly chronological layout also allows intriguing comparisons between artists and styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, as a nice extra touch, we also see selected receipts and correspondence from the times when the works were purchased: a reminder that the greats of the past were once upcoming contemporary artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Delve into the artistic flair of Museum Langmatt&#8217;s collection between September 25th, 2025 and February 8th, 2026. An entrance ticket from or for Lower Belvedere includes the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if that wasn&#8217;t highlight enough for autumn and winter at Belvedere, the same location also has an exhibition around Franz Messerschmidt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/messerschmidt-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"86760\">fascinating baroque sculptures<\/a> (October 31st, 2025 to April 6th, 2026): a real joy if you&#8217;re not familiar with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And wider Vienna has more French impressionism to offer, as revealed in the title of the Albertina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina-art\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2999\">permanent exhibition<\/a>: <em>Monet to Picasso<\/em>. The displays include impressionist and post-impressionist works by some of the names mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3402\">directions page<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/belvedere\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3308\">Belvedere complex<\/a>. But the lower palace is best reached on the 71 tram that skirts the north, west, and southwest of Vienna&#8217;s old town. Or simply walk down from the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once inside, head for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/orangery\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3631\">the orangery<\/a> to find the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Belvedere presents highlights from the Museum Langmatt collection of French impressionist art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belvedere-sites","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83378"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88560,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83378\/revisions\/88560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}