{"id":1047,"date":"2021-07-21T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcadia-revisited.de\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:56:49","slug":"a-monet-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcadia-revisited.de\/de\/a-monet-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monet Moment in W\u00f6rlitz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claude Monet’s waterlily paintings are probably the most famous of his oevre. They made his beloved garden in Giverny famous as well. I visited the house and garden, which lies an hour car drive northwest of Paris, more than a decade ago and seen his paintings in Chicago and Berlin. Halfway between Berlin and Leipzig you can find an almost perfect original of Monet’s waterlilys. Make sure to bring your sketch book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took me a while to understand my waterlilys. I planted them for pure pleasure, I grew them without a thought of painting them once. A landscape does not get under your skin in one day.<\/p>Claude Monet, zitiert nach Felix Kr\u00e4mer „Claude Monet“ (C.H.Beck Wissen)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Waterlilys in W\u00f6rlitz<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

W\u00f6rlitz Garden did not get under my skin in one day. It looked like rain and storm, we went in muggy air, wondering, why there were only few flowers on the whole premis. Not a garden’s garden, let’s say. But more than any other garden W\u00f6rlitz is a landscape with soft slopes, small passageways, canals and meadows. It’s the softness of a bright landscape around lake W\u00f6rlitz, the quietness, which brings you down … and the waterlilys of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summer the watery passageways between the five little islands which belong to the park and the front of lake W\u00f6rlitz are seamed with rose and white waterlilys, throwing their reflection of leaves and petals on the surface of the quiet lake. <\/p>\n\n\n