From June 27 by means of August 24, 2025, the Albertina in Vienna presents the exhibition “Travels: Artists on the move”
Supply: Albertina. Picture: Thomas Ender – “The Mattherhorn seen from the Gornergrat”, 1854. Albertina Museum Vienna
Artists have lengthy sought and located all method of inspiration by means of journey—drawn by historic constructions and landscapes beneath the southern solar, Austria’s alpine world, or the countryside surrounding Vienna. This ALBERTINA exhibition investigates artists’ urge to journey in gentle of 18thand Nineteenth-century masterpieces from the museum’s personal assortment.
The main focus right here ranges from the »grand tour« to journeys of discovery, emphasizing the assorted depicted landscapes and motifs in addition to engagement with nature in works by figures from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Jakob Alt and Thomas Ender to Tina Blau. Delicate drawings and vivid watercolors allow viewers to sense for themselves that period’s craving for brand new horizons and particular person experiences of nature in addition to the situations underneath which journey passed off.
