Esprit Montmartre: Bohemian Life in Paris around 1900

A comprehensive documentation will extend and contextualize the core subjects of the show. Historical photographs by Eugene Atget and others, as well as numerous posters and picture postcards of Montmartre, will help to shed light on further facets of this extraordinary moment in the history of art. The catalogue and special ?Focal Points” in the exhibition will present the artists’ literary friends like Paul Verlaine, composers such as Jacques Offenbach, Erik Satie and Hector Berlioz, and early art dealers on Montmartre like Berthe Weill, who was the first purchasing several works by Picasso, next to the protagonists of those years’ endeavors in the fine arts. While earlier exhibitions like ?Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre” (Washington/Chicago 2005) or ?Picasso in Paris 1900?1907” (Amsterdam 2011) only centered on individual artists, the presentation in the Schirn Kunsthalle will compre