Horst Keller

Giverny, a small country town between Paris and Rouen, became the home of Monet in 1883. Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a very significant artist and one of the founders of French Impressionism. He spent over 40 years of his life as a painter in Giverny, in a spacious country house set in a large garden that he designed and created down to the smallest detail. This luxuriant paradise of flowers and trees inspired Monet's celebrated paintings of water...