Outdoors - State Museum Hanover

from monet to corinth

16.7.2021 – 25.9.2022

In Europe in the early 19th century, a new type of artist appeared: the open-air painter.
His works of art are created outdoors in order to capture realistic color effects and lighting conditions.
For a long time the "plein airists" were the subject of caricature and art criticism - today these artists are extremely popular.

Based on traditional studio painting, the show shows the turn to open-air painting around 1820 using the example of the »Barbizon School« and the famous French Impressionists. Impressive works of German art from the period between 1850 and 1930 then take the viewer to the preferred painting locations: "In the city", "By the sea", "In the country" and "In the garden" combine masterpieces of German impressionism with those that have never been shown before Paintings.

In addition, exhibits from the NaturWorlds make the day by the sea come alive.

With the principle of video collage, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller also create the poetic mode of a timeless perception of nature. The external and internal expectations of looking at the sea are similar to the initial situation of those artists who moved into nature over 100 years ago in order to capture them on sketch paper and canvases.