The Rijksmuseum presents Dutch Winters exhibition at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, on view rom 21 December 2011 to 26 March 2012. The evolution of the 19th-century winter landscape will be displayed by means of eight atmospheric paintings.
Barend Cornelis Koekoek, Winter Landscape, 1835-1838.
During the first half of the 19th century, Romanticism painting was at its height. In their winter landscapes, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Charles Leickert evoke an idyllic atmosphere and a love of nature. Around 1870, a new phase emerged in which the detailed brush strokes of the Romantic periode made way for a more tonal style of painting. The Hague School attempted to depict nature more realistically and to capture the atmosphere of a particular moment. The grey tones in the works of Louis Apol and Anton Mauve are typical of the style. At the end of the 1880s, Amsterdam Impressionism arose as a counterpart to this movement. Willem Witsen and Isaac Israëls use a more colourful palette and smooth strokes to render their impressions of urban and rural life. – www.rijksmuseum.nl