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ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA

Artists have long sought and found all manner of inspiration through travel—drawn by ancient structures and landscapes beneath the southern sun, Austria’s alpine world, or the countryside surrounding Vienna. This ALBERTINA exhibition investigates artists’ urge to travel in light of 18th- and 19th-century masterpieces from the museum’s own collection.

The focus here ranges from the »grand tour« to journeys of discovery, emphasizing the various depicted landscapes and motifs as well as engagement with nature in works by figures from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Caspar David Friedrich to Jakob Alt and Thomas Ender to Tina Blau. Delicate drawings and vivid watercolors enable viewers to sense for themselves that era’s yearning for new horizons and individual experiences of nature as well as the conditions under which travel took place.

The exhibition is on view from 27 June until 24 August 2025.

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      Jakob Alt: The great navy on the island of Capri, 1836
      Jakob Alt: The great navy on the island of Capri, 1836
      41,3 × 51,7 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Jakob Alt: The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1836
      Jakob Alt: The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1836
      49 × 42 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Anna Baar-Plommer: Mountain lake with Glockner group, 1860-1890
      Anna Baar-Plommer: Mountain lake with Glockner group, 1860-1890
      31,7 × 41,1 cm, Oil on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Thomas Ender: The Matterhorn seen from the Gornergrat, 1854
      Thomas Ender: The Matterhorn seen from the Gornergrat, 1854
      33,3 x 50,3 cm, Watercolor (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Rudolf von Alt: The Dachstein in the Salzkammergut as seen from the Vorderer Gosausee, 1840
      Rudolf von Alt: The Dachstein in the Salzkammergut as seen from the Vorderer Gosausee, 1840
      42 × 52,5 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Christian Georg Schütz: Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine with the fortress, opposite Koblenz, before 1801
      Christian Georg Schütz: Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine with the fortress, opposite Koblenz, before 1801
      42,7 × 55,8 cm, Pen, chalk and watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Christoph Heinrich Kniep: Landscape near Segesta with temple and equestrian society, 1788
      Christoph Heinrich Kniep: Landscape near Segesta with temple and equestrian society, 1788
      39,8 × 55 cm, Pen and brush on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Jakob Alt: The Blue Grotto on the Island of Capri, around 1835/36
      Jakob Alt: The Blue Grotto on the Island of Capri, around 1835/36
      41,1 × 51,6 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Jakob Philipp Hackert: Cestius pyramid with German artists at the grave of a companion, 1777
      Jakob Philipp Hackert: Cestius pyramid with German artists at the grave of a companion, 1777
      34,6 × 46 cm, Pen and watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lakescape, 1787
      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lakescape, 1787
      19,5 × 31 cm, Brush on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna. Permanent loan of Österreichische Goethe-Gesellschaft)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Josef Selleny: Coconut palms on Tahiti, 1859
      Josef Selleny: Coconut palms on Tahiti, 1859
      48,7 × 31,7 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Leander Russ: At the pyramids, 1842
      Leander Russ: At the pyramids, 1842
      35 × 43,1 cm, Watercolor and opaque paint on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Marie Lippert-Hoerner: Mountain in the evening sun (Abfaltern), 1889
      Marie Lippert-Hoerner: Mountain in the evening sun (Abfaltern), 1889
      10,5 × 15,1 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
      Thomas Ender: Italian landscape, around 1823
      Thomas Ender: Italian landscape, around 1823
      15,7 × 22,5 cm, Watercolor on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
      © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna