The National Gallery in London presents Waldmüller: Landscapes from 2 July to 20 September 2026, focusing on Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller as a lucid and rigorous interpreter of nineteenth-century landscape painting. A central figure in the Austrian tradition, Waldmüller is reconsidered here through his direct engagement with nature, far removed from Romantic emphasis and grounded instead in observation, measure and formal clarity. The exhibition brings together some of his best-known landscapes, including Early Spring in the Vienna Woods and Landscape with Cows, works that clearly convey his method of working from life. Fields, forests and skies are rendered with a luminous precision that does not idealise the landscape but organises it as a readable space, shaped by carefully constructed visual and seasonal balances. The exhibition highlights the surprisingly modern dimension of Waldmüller’s painting, attentive to the structure of the image and the analytical rendering of light. Waldmüller: Landscapes thus offers a sober and focused reassessment of an artist who viewed nature as an ordered system, anticipating sensibilities aligned with realism and a new conception of landscape in nineteenth-century European painting.
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