‘A MIRROR OF NATURE’ TO GO ON VIEW AT MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE JUNE 24

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. — The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents a special summer exhibition, “A Mirror Of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840–1910,” on view June 24–September 2.

The MIA will be the exclusive US venue to present a major special exhibition of Nordic landscape paintings organized by the Nordic national galleries. “Mirror of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840–1910” showcases masterpieces by such leading artists as Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Carl Larsson, August Strindberg, Harald Sohlberg, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Eero Järnefelt and Fanny Churberg.

Other venues include the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.

Featuring more than 100 paintings, “Mirror of Nature” illuminates the distinctive Nordic contribution to the artistic representation of landscapes in the Nineteenth Century.

This exhibition explores Nordic attitudes to nature and the significance that landscape has had, and continues to have, in Nordic culture and thinking. Landscape painting assumed particular importance around the middle of the Nineteenth Century, when landscape subjects became crucial symbols in Nordic countries’ search for national identity. At the same time, the landscape art of the region was open to wider European influences, evolving in a field of force between the national and the international.

The museum is at 2400 Third Avenue South. For more information, www.artsmia.org or 612-870-3131.