The volume Impressionism and Modernity presents a journey through the evolution of European art between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, featuring 84 works from the collection of the Kunst Museum Winterthur. From Impressionism to the avant-gardes, from Surrealism to contemporary art, the collection recounts the birth of visual modernity through fundamental artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, and Magritte, together with Pissarro, Mondrian, Klee, de Chirico, Ernst and many others, offering a coherent overview of the development of artistic language over the past two centuries.In twentieth-century art historiography, Impressionism and modernity have long been considered inseparable concepts, placed within a linear and teleological narrative that interpreted the evolution of the visual arts between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a continuous progression toward abstraction and Modernism. Within this framework, modernity described the social and economic transformations of industrial civilization, while Modernism represented its artistic response, understood as the synthesis of multiple movements characterized by formal experimentation, a break with tradition, and a strong sense of subjectivity.