With Christoph Irrgang
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 12 pm ET (18h CET)
Photo by Christoph Irrgang for Monet: Places exhibition, Museum Barberini
Claude Monet, Rocks at Belle-Île, Port-Domois, 1886, Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 1/2 in. (81.3 x 64.8 cm) Fanny Bryce Lehmer Endowment and The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985.282
From 2016 – 2019, in anticipation of Museum Barberini’s major retrospective Monet: Places, photographer Christoph Irrgang traveled to many sites of the artist’s major works — to Argenteuil, Le Havre, Étretat, Giverny, and elsewhere — photographing the places Monet had painted en plein air. In this presentation, Irrgang will juxtapose Monet’s masterpieces with his photographic reproductions to speak on light, perspective, and the changing landscape. Building on previous topographical documentation of Monet’s œuvre, Irrgang’s photographs offer additional insight on Monet’s technique as he sought to capture, as faithfully as possible, the perspective in the painting.
Christoph Irrgang studied English and German language and Literature in Hanover, Germany and Photography with renowned photographer and professor Floris Neussüs. He has been working as an artist and freelance photographer since 1986, and was awarded a Fine Arts scholarship from the City of Hamburg in 1990. From 2002-2009, he held teaching assignments with HFBK Dresden and in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Since 2012, he has worked as the photographer for the Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum’s digitization project, and from 2016-2019, he worked on a topographical photography project for Museum Barberini’s exhibition “Monet: Places.” More recently, his photography was featured in the two-part exhibition “Behind the Scenes” at the temporary Haus der Photographie PHOXXI for Fototriennale 2022 in Hamburg, Germany.
Photo by Altay Tuz