Landscape: Transformation of an Idea

Art of the 19th century from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz

08.09.2015 - 17.01.2016

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Duration

08.09.2015 - 17.01.2016

Location

Neue Galerie Graz

Curators

Gudrun Danzer, Günther Holler-Schuster

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About the
Exhibition

The term “landscape” can be understood in many different ways – both inside and outside of artistic discourse.


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Location: Ground floor

Duration: till 17.01.2016

The term “landscape” can be understood in many different ways – both inside and outside of artistic discourse. It can refer to the real living environment of a person or to an area visited by tourists or utilised for tourism. It can refer to land researched within different disciplines, or to land which is changed or used for various purposes.

Topics and artists in the exhibition

On the ground floor the following topics can be seen: opening up the landscape – transforming the landscape into an ideology – the idealisation of the landscape – autonomous nature – images of far away: between ideal and reality – geological research and visual representation.

There are pieces by Thomas Ender, Friedrich und Jakob Gauermann, Blasius Höfel nach Johann Peter Krafft, Johann Kniep, Vinzenz Kreuzer, Joseph Kuwasseg, Christian Friedrich Mali, Johann Nepomuk Passini nach Thomas Ender, Markus Pernhart, Ignaz Raffalt, Carl Reichert, Anton Schiffer, Alois Schönn, Joseph Selleny, Franz Steinfeld, Melanie Stürgkh nach Matthäus Loder, Georg Matthäus Vischer, Michael Wutky (attributed) etc.

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Johann Kniep, Ideale Landschaft, 1806, Öl auf Leinwand, 95,5 x 121 cm;

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Joseph Kuwasseg, Blick auf Graz von St. Peter (Panorama Graz), um 1850 Lithografie auf Papier, 46,8 x 72,3;

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Joseph Kuwasseg, aus der 18-teiligen Serie „Die Urwelt nach Prof. Franz Unger“, um 1850, Aquarell auf Papier, je 48 x 66,5 cm;

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Joseph Kuwasseg, aus der 18-teiligen Serie „Die Urwelt nach Prof. Franz Unger“, um 1850, Aquarell auf Papier, je 48 x 66,5 cm;

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Ignaz Raffalt, Voralpenlandschaft mit aufsteigendem Nebel, 1845, Öl auf Leinwand, 42,2 x 52,8 cm;

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Franz Steinfeld, Grundlsee, um 1845, Öl auf Leinwand, 44,8 x 57,6 cm;

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Unbekannter Stecher, Ansicht des 23. Vesuv-Ausbruchs im Jahr 1751 von Süden, um 1823, aus: Nicolas Gervasi (Hg.), Les incendies du Mont Vesuve, Neapel, um 1823, Kupferstich/Papier, 36,7 x 48,2 cm;

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