Monet at Museum Barberini: Plattner Collection and Paintings

Museum Barberini opened in Potsdam in 2017. The permanent display of the Hasso Plattner Collection followed in September 2020. The collection gives Monet a substantial place within its account of Impressionism.

Water, frost and the grainstacks

The selection below moves between subjects with quite different colours and structures. In Boats at Zaandam, upright masts divide a low view across water. Bordighera, Italy places branching trees in front of the landscape. The frost and ice scenes use much paler passages, while the grainstacks reference has a strongly coloured yellow sky and deep violet shadows. The London view adds a small orange sun above a dark outline of Parliament. The comparison brings together upright masts, the low edges of ice and frost, and rounded masses of leaves or stacked grain.

The museum’s permanent-collection guide explains the Plattner Collection and its display. Use the product pages below to check the particular work, image and original dimensions before choosing a reproduction. Hand-painted oil paintings are our principal offer; canvas prints are also available. Each product’s configurator shows its available sizes and presentations. You can also browse the wider Monet collection.

8 Monet works from Museum Barberini

Boats at Zaandam

1871

Bordighera, Italy

1884

Frost

1875

Glaçons à Bennecourt

1893

Oil painting of two grainstacks in a field at sunset, the larger stack looming in the left foreground with a rounded blue-tinted crown and rust-red flanks, a smaller stack echoing its shape just behind and to the right. The sky glows in soft bands of yellow, peach, and pale blue, its light meeting the ground in a warm haze, while a low line of trees in muted green and pink closes off the horizon to the right. The foreground field is rendered in short, broken strokes of lavender, green, and coral that catch the same fading light.

Graynsta

1890

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament stand in blue silhouette beneath a glowing orange sun in a pink-violet sky.

Houses of Parliament, Sunset

1903

The Rose Bushes in the Garden at Montgeron

1876

Square oil painting of a pond seen from above, its dark green and blue water streaked with loose vertical reflections. Round lily pads drift across the surface in blue-green tones, clustered thickly along the lower-left and right edges. White and pale-yellow water lily blossoms bloom near the top of the canvas, with a single yellow-hearted flower floating just right of center. The brushwork is loose and blended, with no shoreline or sky visible, only water, pads, and blooms filling the frame edge to edge.

Water Lilies

1914-1917

Compare the stacked forms and yellow sky of the grainstacks with the interrupted verticals of the boats and masts. The garden and water-lily references introduce denser vegetation and less open sky. Choose the subject first, then compare its proportions with your wall and the sizes actually offered on its product page.

Official collection: Museum Barberini