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In the light of Caspar David Friedrich 26 January - 26 March 2000
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exhibition, organized in collaboration with the National Gallery of
Canada in Ottawa and the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, draws attention
to a painterly form which took a fresh look at nature fifty years before
Impressionism. Artists such as Johan Christian Dahl from Norway, Christen
Købke from Copenhagen, Karl Blechen from Berlin or Friedrich
Wasmann from Hamburg took their paints and brushes out into nature and
painted directly from the subject. Their aim was to capture reality
in the light of nature to create a straightforward, clear image in as
precise a manner as possible. They painted what they saw, even though
what was seemingly plain or intangible.
In preparing this exhibition we have chosen a wider definition of plein-air painting and included Pomeranian artist Caspar David Friedrich, who was in fact a studio painter, but whose works are strongly characterized by the experience of natural light and his love of precise detail. A painting by Schinkel is also featured.
The major lenders to the exhibition are the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg and the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Nationalgalerie Oslo and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg have also made works available, and Eduard Gaertner’s Berlin panorama is kindly being lent by Schloss Peterhof in Russia.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (15.10.99 - 2.01.2000) Hamburg Kunsthalle (26.01 - 26.03.2000) Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen (19.04 - 18.06.2000)
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Hamburger Kunsthalle Glockengießerwall
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predominant figures will be the influential teacher Christopher Eckersberg,
Christen Købke and Eduard Gaertner, and also Christian Dahl,
who like Friedrich, had settled in Dresden.
The
catalogue contains illustrations and descriptions of all 107 paintings,
as well as essays by Helmut Börsch-Supan and the three curators
responsible for the exhibition: Catherine Johnston (Ottawa), Helmut
R. Leppien (Hamburg) and Kaspar Monrad (Copenhagen).