Curator: Šárka Leubnerová

Exhibition Concept: Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, Šárka Leubnerová, Jana Moravcová

Architectural Design: Vladimír Hora

The landscape oeuvre of Augusta Bedřich Piepenhagen and his daughters Charlotte and Louisa emerged during the period of Romanticism. The cornerstone of this body of work and its significance is the exceptionally prolific as well as attractive oeuvre of August Bedřich, with Charlotte and Louisa essentially continuing their father’s legacy. Piepenhagen, a foreigner by origin, apprenticed as a button-maker, and as a self-taught painter he evolved from an empirical and descriptive rendering of reality towards a purely Romantic composition in the final mature stages of his creative career. He would produce relentless variations of views of mountain valleys filled with lakes and rivers, ruined castles perched upon rocky promontories, water surfaces reflecting full moons, forest paths illuminated by rays of sun or moonlight, as well as snow-filled landscapes. His friend, the Austrian poet and landscape artist Adalbert Stifter, wrote in 1859 that Piepenhagen’s landscapes were suffused with “the suppleness of natural color.”