Visionary Romantics

VISIONARY ROMANTICS

Peder Balke | Eugenio Lucas | Lars Hertervig

Seminar in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Visionary Romantics’

All talks are held in English

0:00 - See the seminar from the beginning

You can also choose one of the lectures:

7:03 - What we could learn about the North and Romanticism by looking at the Object Biographies of Caspar David Friedrich's Works by Kilian Heck

48:34 - Visionary Romantics: Balke, Lucas, Hertervig and Others by Knut Ljøgodt

1:12:28 - Eugenio Lucas Velázquez: from Goyaesque to Visionary Landscape by Carlos Sánchez Díez

1:28:27 - Q&A #1

1:59:33 - Inner Light and Religion in Lars Hertervig's Late Art by Holger Koefoed

2:25:53 - Lars Hertervig and Richard Dadd: Parallel Lives by Dr Nicholas Tromans (UK)

2:56:08 Q&A #2 and summing up

About the project

The exhibition Visionary Romantics presents the works of the Norwegian painters Lars Hertervig (1830–1902) and Peder Balke (1804–1887), alongside those of the Spanish artist Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817–1870). It includes more than 60 works altogether; paintings, water-colours and drawings, from the collections of Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Stavanger Art Museum, The Gundersen Collection (Oslo) and the Savings Bank Foundation DNB (Oslo).

The different speakers of the event present aspects of the individual artists, and will also look at their background in the Romantic movement in Europe as well other relevant contexts. The seminar – alongside the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue – in particular explore how Lucas, Hertervig and Balke can be seen as visionary artists, concentrating on a landscape of the mind, and further how these artists applied experimental or unusual techniques to achieve their effects. This loose and experimental way of painting – sometimes seen as a predecessor of Impressionism and Abstract art – is a phenomenon found in the works of selected 19th century painters associated with Romantic landscape painting. In addition to Lucas, Hertervig and Balke, we could also mention artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner and Victor Hugo. By juxtaposing the works of the Norwegian and Spanish artists, the project aims at exploring this as a transnational phenomenon, representing new understanding of a particular, somewhat overlooked, aspect of art history. In addition, it introduces two central Norwegian Romantic artists to a Spanish audience, and one important Spanish painter to Scandinavia.

The exhibition is organized by the two museums jointly with CEEH and NIA. It is initiated and curated by Knut Ljøgodt and Carlos Sánchez Díez, with contributions by Inger M.L. Gudmundson.

A publication in two editions (Spanish and English) is brought out by CEEH in association with the museums and NIA, and includes essays by Begoña Torres Gómez, Knut Ljøgodt, Carlos Sánchez Díez, Hanne Beate Ueland and Inger M.L. Gudmundson.