MONET – Century of Change

In 1926, Claude Monet dies surrounded by fog — and by doubt. He has painted hundreds of water lilies, but refuses to exhibit them. He nearly abandons his greatest project. What happened to the confidence of France’s most celebrated painter?

In this final episode, we follow Monet into seclusion — as his eyesight fails, his temper flares, and his paintings become more radical than ever before. While the world waits outside the gates of Giverny, it is his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, who pushes him to finish what he started. Their unlikely bond — between artist and statesman — becomes the reason Monet’s water lilies are ever seen at all.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

On September 5, 1879, Claude Monet watches his wife Camille die — and begins to paint her lifeless face. It’s an image that haunts him forever, but also pulls him back to the one thing that might save him: his art.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

When the world says paint the past, Monet turns his back on it — quite literally. In 1867, he sets up his easel on a balcony of the Louvre, Paris behind him, revolution before him. As Haussmann’s boulevards transform the city, Monet dreams of transforming art to match it.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

Before Monet painted water lilies, he almost died in the deserts of Algeria. Drafted into a brutal colonial war at just twenty, the young dreamer from Le Havre found himself in a uniform instead of an artist’s smock — until a twist of fate, a stubborn aunt, and a defiant decision brought him back to Paris.

This episode dives into Monet’s unlikely escape from the army, the moment Oscar became Claude, and how one fateful friendship changed his path forever. Meet Bazille — the loyal friend, secret patron, and fellow rebel who helped Monet break free from old masters and find new ones in the forests outside Paris.

What does it take to defy your father, abandon your teacher, and invent modern art with nothing but an empty wallet and fierce belief in light and nature?

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

In 1872, Claude Monet painted Impression, Sunrise — the picture that gave Impressionism its name and changed art forever. But who was the man behind the myth? Genius, braggart, rebel — Monet shaped his own legend and rewrote the rules of what art could be.

In this opening episode, we unpack secrets hidden in crates, dig through lock books and stargazers’ notes, and follow young Monet from rebellious schoolboy to the Paris salons that rejected him — until he broke them open. How did a boy sketching caricatures in a seaside town become a master who redefined modern art?

Join us on a cinematic journey through the storms, scandals, and strokes of genius that made Monet an icon.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.

Author and historian Alice Loxton presents the biopic of one of Europe's most important painters: Claude Monet. His life is traced in six episodes. His conflicts are by no means out of date. It is about the harmony between man and nature, about major social changes. And it is about war and peace. This is the story of a world-famous man who is surrounded by numerous myths. This documentary podcast finds answers to the last questions about the French artist of the century.

"Monet - Century of Change" is a production by Studio Jot for the Museum Barberini Potsdam.