Joseph Anton Koch was known for his landscapes, for he did not show nature as a lovely idyll as usual, but as eerily beautiful.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important representatives of Classical Modernism and is considered a pioneer of abstraction.

With his landscapes depicting the fleeting and atmospheric, Carl Blechen was a pioneer of plein-air painting in German art.

Anton Graff was the most important portraitist of the German Enlightenment and stood out with his individual portrayal of each person.

Pastel painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Europe in the 18th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century Hodler developed into one of the few great independent landscape artists in Europe. For more than a decade he occupied himself with motifs from the mountain and lake landscape of Switzerland.

View into Infinity resulted from a comissioned work for the stairwell of the Kunsthaus Zürich, which took years to complete.

At the beginning of the 20th-century Paris wasn’t only the city of leading painters but also the city of great sculptors. Rodin, Maillol, Medardo Rosso.

The German painter Max Beckmann spent the Second World War in exile in Amsterdam. When the first ship set sail again he emigrated to the USA.

Shaped by new knowledge of the mountains, which now were being explored and researched, with his unique view of the powerful natural setting, Caspar Wolf set a landmark in European landscape painting.