From 27 February to 14 June 2026, the Decrease Belvedere presents the exhibition “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: True to Nature”
Supply: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Picture: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: “The Ruins of Liechtenstein Citadel close to Mödling”, 1848
Panorama portray skilled a heyday throughout Europe in the course of the nineteenth century. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was a part of this growth, capturing individuals’s craving for the pure world in his intimate portraits of bushes, sweeping landscapes from the Vienna Woods, and iconic views of the Salzkammergut. This exhibition sheds mild on Waldmüller’s landscapes within the context of his time. Trailblazing contemporaries, corresponding to John Constable and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, encourage us to discover Waldmüller’s depictions of nature towards the backdrop of wider European developments.
The exhibition
Within the first half of the nineteenth century, many progressive artists throughout Europe issued a clarion name that artwork ought to be true to life. Artists more and more turned their consideration to their native landscapes as a result of, within the age of industrialization, individuals needed to spend extra time within the pure world, to study it, and to convey nature into their houses within the type of photos.
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865), a pivotal Austrian painter from the Biedermeier interval, made it his purpose to color “nature that surrounds us, our time, our customs.” His true-to-life portraits, style scenes, and landscapes polarized opinion. Panorama was key in his artwork—as a background, a topic in its personal proper, and as an expression of the connection between humanity and nature. It was an curiosity that endured till the top of his life.
