From Turner to Friedrich, the landscapes of northern European romanticism on display in the Netherlands through May

The exhibition Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner, which opened last Dec. 9 and runs until May 6, continues at the Groninger Museum in Groningen, Netherlands. The exhibition aims to give an account of how the Romantic painters ofnorthern Europe dealt with the theme of landscape: stormy seas, eerie mountains, volcanoes in the midst of their eruptions, but also evocative moonlight and placid countryside populated the compositions of artists such as William Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, and Johan Christian Dahl.

With more than ninety-five works from the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom, the exhibition, curated by David Jackson, Ruud Schenk, and Andreas Blühm, offers an extraordinary journey through the Romantic landscape with works that, the exhibition presentation assures, “not only continue to captivate our imaginations today, but the new sensibility that developed at the time ended up shaping modern art.” This is because the Romantic landscapes were not only descriptions of a place, but also reflected the interiority of the artists who executed them, with the result that the landscapes also varied and changed according to the painter’s mood, and the descriptions of nature also had to do with history and spirituality.

The exhibition can be visited during the opening hours of the Groningen Museum, Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Mondays are closed). Open at Easter and Easter Monday as well as on holidays. The exhibition is accessed with the Groninger Museum admission ticket: full 15 euros, reduced 10 euros (Cultural Youth Pass and students under 19), free for Dutch Museum Card holders, students attending Groningen institutions, children and youth under 18, Friends of the Groninger Museum, ICOM members, Rembrandt Pass holders. Guided tours at an additional cost of 5 euros (one hour) or 6 euros (one and a half hours). For information you can visit the Groninger Museum website (in English).

Pictured: Knud Baade, Scene from the Era of Norwegian Sagas (1850; New York, Collection of Asbjørn Lunde. Photo © Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway

From Turner to Friedrich, the landscapes of northern European romanticism on display in the Netherlands through May

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