THE MORGAN COLLABORATES WITH LONDON'S COURTAULD GALLERY TO EXPLORE THE BEAUTY AND INNOVATION OF BRITISH AND GERMAN ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE DRAWING

Press release date: 
Friday, April 4, 2014

At the close of the eighteenth century, while wars and revolutions rocked Europe, landscape art began a quiet transformation. British and German artists were pioneers in forging a new type of landscape, abandoning the certainties and formulas of the past in favor of a revitalized representation of the natural world. A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany (May 30 –
September 7) traces the unfolding of this new Romantic sensibility with a selection of drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches chosen from the renowned collections of the Morgan Library & Museum and London’s Courtauld Gallery—capturing its beginnings in the Age of Enlightenment to its full flowering in the Romantic art of J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840).

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