Nature of the north
The exhibition explores Nordic attitudes to nature and the significance which landscape has had, and continues to have, in Nordic culture and thinking. Landscape painting assumed particular importance around the middle of the nineteenth century, when landscape subjects became crucial symbols in the Nordic countries' search for national identity. At the same time, the landscape art of the region was open to wider European influences, evolving in a field of force between the national and the international.
Nordic artists and landscapes
The exhibition features more than hundred by leading artists, such as Edvard Munch, Carl Larsson, Peder Severin Kröyer, and Fanny Churberg. The works are grouped thematically under five headings: Nordic Sublime, Close to Nature, In the Open Air, Evocative Landscape and Landscapes of the Mind, reflecting the development of landscape painting, from the heroic, romantic wildernesses of the 1840s to the dreamy, inward-looking mental landscapes of the turn of the century.
Accompanying the exhibition is a large-format, hard-cover catalogue of some 300 pages, which is available in English and the four Nordic languages. Written by a team of Nordic specialists, the book is lavishly illustrated, with colour reproductions of all the works. A total of nine different articles examine the subject of Nordic landscape painting. Alongside an introductory survey and thematic essays, there are two studies written from the viewpoint of the history of ideas, as well as descriptive entries on all the individual paintings, biographies of the artists and a bibliography.
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