Art and Nature combined in a magnificent experience
Source: www.nationalmuseum.se
Topic: Landscape
Sort Desciption: Around the mid 19th century, nature assumed particular importance as a symbol of emerging national identity. Nordic landscape painting, meanwhile, intera cted with wider European influences as it evolved
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A Mirror of Nature
Nordic Landscape Painting 1840 - 1910
30.9 2006 - 14.1 2007
Art and Nature
combined in a
magnificent experience
Forests. Open country. Meadows.
Lakes. Mountains. The Nordic
countries enjoy a special relationship
with nature, and the landscape has
always played a prominent part in
cultural and artistic life. Around the
mid 19th century, nature assumed
particular importance as a symbol of
emerging national identity. Nordic
landscape painting, meanwhile, interacted
with wider European influences
as it evolved.
In the Open Air.
Anders Zorn,
Girls Bathing
(In the Open Air) , 1890
Landscapes
of the Mind.
August Strindberg,
Storm in the Skerries. »The
Flying Dutchman« , 1892
Evocative Landscape.
Eilif Peterssen,
Summer Night , 1886
Nordic Sublime.
Marcus Larson,
Waterfall in Småland , 1856
Close to Nature.
Christen Købke,
A View from Dosseringen
near the Sortedam Lake looking
towards Nørrebro , 1838
The exhibition presents over 100 works produced by
leading Nordic artists between 1840 and 1910.
In the course of this 70-year period, the way the
landscape was depicted changed radically. To reflect
the different phases in the development of landscape
painting, the exhibits are grouped thematically under
five headings: Nordic Sublime, Close to Nature, In
the Open Air, Evocative Landscape and Landscapes
of the Mind.
Collaborative exhibition.
A Mirror of Nature is a collaborative exhibition produced
by the four Nordic national galleries: National-
museum, Stockholm; Konstmuseet Ateneum,
Helsinki; Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, arkitektur og
design, Oslo; and Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
It will be on show at these galleries and at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota, a state
that became home to many Swedish settlers.
A Mirror of Nature
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