Northern lights /

"The exhibition "Northern Lights" presents 74 landscape paintings by artists from Scandinavia and Canada produced between 1888 and 1937, among them masterpieces by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch. These artists all share the boreal forest as a common source of inspiration. The seeming...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Northern lights (Fondation Beyeler)
Other Authors:	Küster, Ulf (Editor, Contributor), Lampe, Angela (Contributor), Atanassova, Katerina (Contributor), Pennonen, Anne-Maria (Contributor), Christoffersen, Helga (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Riehan/Basel : Berlin : Fondation Beyeler ; Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, [2025]
Subjects:	Landscape painting, Scandinavian > 19th century > Exhibitions. Landscape painting, Scandinavian > 20th century > Exhibitions. Landscape painting, Canadian > 19th century > Exhibitions. Landscape painting, Canadian > 20th century > Exhibitions. Peinture de paysages scandinave > 19e siècle > Expositions. Peinture de paysages scandinave > 20e siècle > Expositions. Peinture de paysages canadienne > 19e siècle > Expositions. Peinture de paysages canadienne > 20e siècle > Expositions. Landscape painting, Canadian. Landscape painting, Scandinavian. 1800-1999 exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition.

Table of Contents:

Northern Lights: An introduction / Ulf Küster
Plates. Thoughts on the Nordic tradition / Angela Lampe
Seclusion or inclusion: The Canadian response to Scandinavian Symbolist landscape painting / Katerina Atanassova
Changing landscapes / Anne-Maria Pennonen
Forest futures: Jakob Kudsk Steensen's real and imagined journey through a changing landscape / Helga Christoffersen
Northern Lights: A photo essay / Ulf Küster
Biographies / Louise Bannwarth.