Metroplitan Museum of Art Presents 'Rooms With a View' Exhibition, 4/5-7/4
By: Kelsey Denette Mar. 25, 2011
WHAT: Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
The first exhibition to focus on the motif of the Open Window as the sole subject or the main feature in pictures of interiors as captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810-20. Works in the exhibition range from two sepia drawings of about 1805-06 by Caspar David Friedrich to paintings of luminous empty rooms from the late 1840s by Adolph Menzel. The pictures shift from early Romantic severity to Biedermeier coziness to poetic Realism, yet they all share a distinct absence of anecdote or narrative. The show features 31 oil paintings and 26 works on paper, and consists mostly of generous loans from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and the United States. Many of the works in Rooms with a View have never been seen in this country.
On view at the Metropolitan Museum beginning April 5 through July 4, 2011.
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