“Everything urges towards landscape…”

The early 19th century saw the rediscovery of the landscape by many artists. In addition to the notion of the classical ideal landscape, the landscape was seen as a place that sparked a longing in the artist and reflected states of mind; alternatively, it portrayed a supposedly unclouded view of reality.
Based on a selection of 90 known and yet-to-be-rediscovered landscapes from the stores of the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, the range of different concepts of art in the 19th century – from classicism and romanticism to realism and outdoor painting, all the way to symbolism – are presented here.

Artists:
Andreas Achenbach, Oswald Achenbach, Karl Blechen, Arnold Böcklin, Karl Buchholz, Heinrich Bürkel, Wilhelm Busch, Alexandre Calame, Carl Gustav Carus, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Georg Heinrich Croll, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Johann Jakob Dorner, Johann Christian Michael Ezdorf, Johann Jakob Frey, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Theodor Goldstein, Carl Wilhelm Götzloff, Hans Fredrik Gude, Louis Gurlitt, Jakob Philipp Hackert, Heinrich Heinlein, Friedrich Helmsdorf, Franz Horny, Carl Hummel, Ernst Kaiser, Edmund Kanoldt, Johann Christian Klengel, Leo von Klenze, Franz Kobell, Joseph Anton Koch, Carl Robert Kummer, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Adolf Heinrich Lier, Otto Modersohn, Claude Monet, Christian Morgenstern, Friedrich Nerly, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier, Woldemar Friedrich Olivier, Friedrich Preller d. Ä., Domenico II Quaglio, Johann Christian Reinhart, Heinrich Reinhold, Adrian Ludwig Richter, Wilhelm Riefstahl, Johann Martin von Rohden, Christian Rohlfs, Carl Rottmann, Philipp Otto Runge, Georg Saal, Wilhelm Scheuchzer, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Eduard Schleich d. Ä., Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger, Carl Spitzweg, Hans Thoma, Carl Wagner, Josef Wenglein