Ueberlingen, Germany - An art exhibition to open in Germany Saturday explores the influence of Japanese art on two 19th-century Impressionist painters, Edgar Degas and James Whistler. Coloured woodcuts by Hosoda Eishi, Ando Hiroshige and other Japanese artists are included in the show in the Ueberlingen municipal art gallery, close to Lake Constance and the Swiss border, organizers said Thursday.
Impressionism and the Japan Craze, running till September 13, looks back to Europe's love affair with Japanese art, drawing on 100 paintings, drawings and prints from leading museums and private collections.
The British Museum lent 10 works including six by Frenchman Degas (1834-1917).
US-born Whistler (1834-1903), who lived in London and Paris, had a considerable private collection of Japanese art, some of which is in the Ueberlingen show. Degas and Whistler became acquainted sometime between 1855 and 1860 and remained lifelong friends.
