Albertina hosts the largest exhibition on the history of landscape painting, from Dürer to Klee

Until August 22, 2021 at theAlbertina in Vienna the exhibition City and Landscape. Between Dream and Reality. On display are masterpieces that are part of the museum’s collections, some of which have not been on view for years, that give insight into how travel has always inspired artists through the Grand Tour and landscape painting. 170 works encompassing five centuries: from Dürer’s refined etchings to Paul Klee’s nature, through Bruegel, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Boucher, Caspar David Friedrich, Menzel, Jacob Alt, Rudolf von Alt, Cézanne, Kubin, and Emile Nolde.

The Albertina aims to offer the largest survey of the history of landscape painting, making world-renowned masterpieces and unique works visible to the public. Beginning with the beginnings of landscape painting, first and foremost Albrecht Dürer, we reach Bruegel, Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Renaissance cityscapes and close-up views, utopian visions of Arcadian landscapes and realistic views of nature from the industrial age; and again, Caspar David Friedrich’s images of the sublime, as well as Alfred Kubin’s visions and dystopias and Paul Klee’s childhood dreams of playful nature. Finally, key works of Romantic landscape and 20th-century Austrian watercolor painting, such as the views of Vienna by Jakob and Rudolf von Alt. Jakob Alt is present in the collections with a considerable number of works, including View from the painter’s studio in Alservorstadt towards Dornbach (1836). The latter is regarded as the progenitor of a famous family of Viennese painters.

Most of the landscape paintings in the exhibition were acquired by the museum’s founder, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, who was particularly interested in large-format landscape drawings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries: he collected, for example, landscapes by Adrian Zingg and his pupils because of their artistic quality and because they reminded him of his former homeland, Saxony. During his last years, Duke Albert focused onacquiring landscapes, a rich selection of which is presented in the exhibition.

For more info: https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/city-and-landscape/

Image: Jakob Alt: View of Vienna (1817; Vienna, Albertina)

Albertina hosts the largest exhibition on the history of landscape painting, from Dürer to Klee

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