Buchpremiere: Die Farben von Paris von Rainer Moritz

Rodney Rosenfeld is an art historian at a North American university and has devoted himself to French Impressionism. He is particularly fascinated by Berthe Morisot, perhaps the most important painter of the 19th century. A scholarship takes Rosenfeld to Paris, where he is supposed to study Morisot's watercolors, but becomes increasingly fascinated by her biography. Who was this woman who, despite her parents' skepticism, stuck to her vocation as an artist? Who shied away from marriage for a long time, fell in love with her colleague Édouard Manet and eventually married his brother? Publicist and long-time director of the Hamburg House of Literature Rainer Moritz tells the story of Berthe Morisot's unusual life with great sensitivity. He lets her speak for herself when, in 1895, in her mid-fifties, she sensed that death was approaching, recalled the decisive turning points in her life and finally decided to reveal her great secret. In conversation with the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Alexander Klar. Meeting point: Event room of the Galerie der Gegenwart Participation: Participation included in admission.