In Salzburg the first comprehensive exhibition on Austrian baroque landscapes

Through January 31, 2022, the Residenzgalerie Salzburg presents the exhibition Nature in Image. Austrian Baroque Landscapes, curated by Thomas Habersatter and Astrid Ducke.

The exhibition aims to be the first comprehensive exhibition on Austrian Baroque landscapes, taking into account the interest in this topic in recent years. Thus, paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by more than thirty artists of the period are on display, including Albert Christoph Dies and Anton Faistenberger. Trees bent by the wind, the colors of tree foliage in light-flooded forests, an approaching thunderstorm, a path over a mountain pass, a hunting party, the merriment of a village festival set in a landscape: Austrian Baroque painters depicted all these elements on canvases, copper plates and wood panels, in various formats, from small works to canvases of more than two meters.
Great enthusiasts of this theme were eighteenth-century collectors from aristocratic, ecclesiastical and bourgeois circles.

The exhibition also features Dutch, Italian and French works for direct comparison with Austrian landscapes and nineteenth-century examples to understand changes in the style of landscape painting.

The exhibition counts important loans from various institutions, such as the Belvedere in Vienna, the Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Salzburg Museum, as well as from private collections.

For more info: https://www.domquartier.at/en/sonderausstellung/nature-in-artaustrian-baroque-landscapes/

Image: Albert Christoph Dies, Landscape in the Storm with the Hoher Staufen Mountain (oil on canvas, 118.5 x 180.2 cm) Credit RGS/Ghezzi

In Salzburg the first comprehensive exhibition on Austrian baroque landscapes

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