Monet and the birth of impressionism / Felix Kramer "Between the motif and me": visual filters and obstructions to seeing in the impressionist image / Nerina Santorius Instants, moments, minutes: impressionism and the industrialisation of time / Andre Dombrowski Invited or rebuffed?: exploring the effects of early impressionist foregrounds / Hollis Clayson From non fini to impression: the birth of a new painting / Isolde Pludermacher From salon success to avant-garde painting: Claude Monet's artistic path to impressionism / Dorothee Hansen A stage spectacle: Edouard Manet's The universal exhibition of Paris 1867 / Felicity Korn Provocatively private: Claude Monet's The luncheon. Farewell to figure painting / Felix Kramer Spontaneity and calculation: Edouard Manet's The game of croquet / Marlene Bielefeld Berthe Morisot and her contribution to the impressionist movement / Ingrid Pfeiffer The real in the artificial: Edgar Degas' Orchestra musicians / Svenja Mordhorst Forms of contact: Auguste Renoir's After the luncheon / Beate Sontgen The deceleration of the gaze: Claude Monet's Exterior of Saint-Lazare Station (The signal) / Nerina Santorius
Fluid world: the cultural-historical context of impressionism / Christoph Asendorf
Of peaceful coexistence and conducive competition: on the relationship of painting and photography at the time of impressionism / Nele Putz
Impressionism in the caricature / Chantal Eschenfelder
Composition planning and paint application in Claude Monet's Oeuvre: two paintings from the collection of the Stadel Museum / Eva Bader
Techonological investigations of the paintings belonging to the Stadel Museum / Eva Bader, Stephan Knobloch
Short biographies / Maria Zinser.