We hope you can join us for two upcoming webinars, hosted by the WPI, featuring exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Museum Barberini, as well as an exciting new initiative: Networks of Impressionism.  

On View: Women Impressionists and the Land — with Simon Kelly
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 12:00 pm EST (18:00 CET)
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BW9cmUjSSKK33qHBX5lUFw

This fall, the Saint Louis Art Museum presents the first exhibition to focus on landscapes as a distinct body of work essential for understanding the women of the Impressionism movement. Rather than focusing on domestic subject matter, this exhibit features the less documented outdoor spaces painted by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and others, revealing how nature became a site of artistic innovation, identity, and quiet resistance. Simon Kelly, SLAM’s modern and contemporary art curator, will discuss highlights from the 70 paintings, works on paper, and ceramics, in the exhibition.


Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum since 2010, has curated more than thirty exhibitions in his time at SLAM, including most recently Women Impressionists and the Land (2026-27), Matisse and the Sea (2024), Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape (2023) and Millet and Modern Art: from van Gogh to Dali (2020). Kelly has published extensively on 19th- and early 20th-century French art, particularly Barbizon and Impressionist painting, including the book, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021). He has published numerous essays in scholarly journals and exhibition catalogues. Much of his writing has focused on the relationship between artists and cultural markets, and increasingly on ecological issues. He is currently completing his book The Barbizon Painters: An Ecological Community, 1830-1900 (Bloomsbury).

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Networks of Impressionism: Visualizing a Movement — with Dr. Ortrud Westheider and Linda Hacka
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 12:00 pm EST (18:00 CET)
Register Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nzlzZ8W9T3-b1g0fjvFt_A

Join us on Wednesday, December 2 for our last webinar of 2026, “Networks of Impressionism: Visualizing a Movement,” with the Director of the Museum Barberini Dr. Ortrud Westheider and Provenance Research Associate Linda Hacka.

The launch of the online platform Networks of Impressionism brings together archival material, research, and data pertaining to the Impressionist works comprising the Hasso Plattner Collection at the Museum Barberini, and to the larger movement, connecting the artists, gallerists, collectors, and academics who took part in its development.

This first look at Networks of Impressionism also coincides with the Museum’s 10th anniversary exhibition, The Impressionists: Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Their Network. This exhibition features over 100 masterpieces, including works from major museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Musée d’Orsay; the Ordrupgaard Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts in London; and many more. Dr. Westheider and Ms. Hacka will discuss key works in the exhibit, the development of the platform, and the relationship between the two initiatives. 


Dr. Ortrud Westheider has been director of the Museum Barberini since 2016. Following her doctorate, she worked at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunsthalle Bremen, and the Westphalian State Museum in Münster from 1994 to 2001. From 2002, she was curator at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg, where she served as director from 2006 to 2016 and conceived numerous exhibitions, including Frida Kahlo (2006). At the Museum Barberini, she has curated the exhibitions Impressionism: The Art of Landscape (2017), Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage (2018), Gerhard Richter: Abstraction (2018), Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome (2019), Monet: Places (2020), Impressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-Garde (2020), and Modigliani: Modern Gazes (2024). In 2020, she established the display of the Hasso Plattner Collection and published the collection catalog Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection.

Linda Hacka has been working as a research associate at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam since 2016 with a focus on provenance research since 2020. She researches the Impressionist works of the Hasso Plattner Collection and conveys the relevance of provenance research through guided tours and lectures. From 2003 to 2010, she studied art history, classical archaeology, and English philology in Münster and Berlin. She is a freelance provenance researcher for private and public art collections as well as for the German Lost Art Foundation. Her recent projects at the Museum Barberini include provenance research for the exhibition Modigliani. Modern Gazes (2024) as well as the digital platform Networks of Impressionism.

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Developed by the Museum Barberini in collaboration with the Wildenstein Plattner Institute and Navigating.art, Networks of Impressionism combines museum research, archival resources, and digital innovation to make the history of French Impressionism more accessible, transparent, and interconnected for a global audience. This project is made possible with support from the Hasso Plattner Foundation.
https://networksofimpressionism.org/noi/introduction
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