Feb 18, 2026 at 14:03
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Cezanne at Fondation Beyeler
The œuvre of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) builds a bridge between Impressionism (German article) and abstraction. The French painter is one of the pioneers of modern art. Pablo Picasso went as far as to call him “the father of us all” (“notre père à nous tous”), as the curator Ulf Küster and the museum director Sam Keller note in the foreword to the 2026 Fondation Beyeler Cezanne exhibition. They could also have added that Picasso once said that what Cézanne did with reality “was much more progressive than the steam engine” (Picasso affirmait que ce que Cezanne avait fait avec la réalité “constituait un progrès beaucoup plus important que la machine à vapeur”). From January 25 until May 25, 2026 the...
