Northern Lights

The Fondation Beyeler is dedicating a catalog to the Northern Lights with landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada.

The fascination of the North is enduring: Vast, impenetrable coniferous forests on the edge of the Arctic polar region, white summer nights, the long darkness of snowy winters and the famous Northern Lights exert a magical attraction. The Fondation Beyeler is dedicating an exhibition to this global phenomenon with landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada. In addition to works by famous painters such as Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen Kallela and Hilma af Klint, it also features paintings by artists who are highly respected in their home countries, but whounjustlyhave been virtually unknown in Central Europe until now. The Nordic pictorial worlds of Harald Sohlberg, Gustav Fjaestad, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and Prince Eugene of Sweden are finally being presented to a wide audience. Other artists represented in the exhibition and catalogue are Ivan Shishkin, Anna Boberg, Helmi Biese, Lawren Harris and J. E. H. Macdonald. See more