The idealized ladscape of Claude Lorrain

"In Claude Lorrain, nature declares itself eternal," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted enthusiastically on the French Baroque artist’s landscape paintings in 1818. According to Germany's prince among poets and most famous Grand Tourist, Lorrain’s idealized, timeless landscapes possess "the highest truth, but no trace of reality." Now, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (Germany) shows one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain's (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career, among them thirteen paintings and numerous drawings and prints.

Prepared in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Claude Lorrain. The Enchanted Landscape presents the work of the most important landscape painter of the seventeenth century in a monographic exhibition for the first time in Germany after almost thirty years.

Besides five drawings and about forty etchings, the Städel possesses a significant late painting by the master: Christ Appears before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere). In recent years, the Städel could acquire a rare etching from the spectacular Fireworks series and the outstanding drawing Dancer with Tambourine and Bagpiper.

Date: until May 6
Location: Städel Museum. Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt, Germany.
Opening hours: from Friday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 9pm.

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