Ever wish you could travel back in time and visit the studios of some of history’s greatest artists? Well, we don’t exactly have a time machine, but we’ve got the next best thing: the palettes that were used in creating the most celebrated artistic masterpieces of the Nineteenth and Twentieth century.
In his series Das Meisterstück, German photographer Matthias Schaller has spent the last 9 years photographing over 200 palettes of over 70 of the most prominent painters. He believes his palette portraits provide a unique insight to better understanding and analyzing the creative processes of these artistic geniuses.
1. Claude Monet
2. Vincent van Gogh
3. Paul Cézanne
4. Gustave Moreau
5. Henry Matisse
6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
7. J.M.W. Turner
8. Wassily Kandinsky
9. Eugéne Delacroix
Schalle’s portraits are currently on view from May 8 to June 7 with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in the Palladian Refectory on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice, Italy).
