We had a private guidance though the exhibition “Plein air landscape” paintings from the 19 century (1860 – 1890)
Plein-air landscape painting (from the French "en plein air" - outdoors) developed significantly in Central Europe in the second half of the 19th century, influenced by the so-called Barbizon school and French realism. Artists in this group, and many of their successors throughout Europe, captured ephemeral natural features and conveyed their own personal perspectives of how they saw landscapes. This influence came across in the selected artists' works during this very period of the 1860s to the 1880s. Of particular note here are the opportunities and personal contacts that Central European artists had, and how they took inspiration and new approaches from post-Romantic landscape painting.
2 Rotarian fellows from the RC Montana / US joined us too.
