GAINSBOROUGH, GER.

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. DIE moderne Landschaft | Mar 2nd - May 27th 2018 | special exhibition
catalogue for special exhibition | 224 pages | 220 illustrations | hardcover | Hirmer | german edition

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was a pioneering artist in the development towards ›modern‹ landscape painting of around 1800. He was mainly perceived as a painter of brilliant society portraits by his contemporaries, although he personally far preferred his landscapes. They reflect the dramatic technological and artistic developments of his time and the growing contradictions in British society. Landscape painting served Gainsborough as a laboratory to transform impressions into innovation. He experimented with colours and techniques, painted on glass and combined natural materials into landscape models. Establishing England as a centre of European landscape painting, he created images of timeless power. Iconic works like ›Mr and Mrs Andrews‹ will feature in the exhibition. ›Gainsborough. Modern Landscape‹ is the first exhibition by a German museum devoted to Gainsborough. For a German and an international public it promises the (re-)discovery of an exceptional painter.