Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 12 pm ET (18:00 CET)
Join us on Wednesday, December 2 for our last webinar of 2026, “Networks of Impressionism: Visualizing a Movement,” with the Director of the Museum Baberini 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.
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.
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.