Steinlen and the 1900 Period

The exhibition presents the work of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen in connection with that of his predecessors (Carrière, Monet and Degas) and that of his contemporaries (Renoir, Bonnard and Picasso), establishing comparisons between different artistic trajectories.

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, a versatile painter, draughtsman, caricaturist and poster designer, was an exceptional witness of his age who managed to convey the pulse of the times – the late nineteenth century – with all the artistic media at his disposition. The exhibition compares Steinlen's oeuvre to that of other artists, including some of his predecessors, such as Carrière, Monet and Degas, and some of his contemporaries, like Renoir, Bonnard and Picasso. Steinlen and the 1900 Period captures the flavour of the Belle Époque and especially of Montmartre as a centre of creative effervescence. Steinlen exerted a great influence on cultural life in Catalonia, where local fin-de-siècle artists such as Casas, Rusiñol, Sunyer, Canals and Opisso were inspired by his work, promoted by journals like Gil Blas that circulated widely in Catalonia.