Waldmüller: Landscapes – a cool Alpine antidote to London heatwaves
Lucy Davies | Financial Times | 3rd July 2026
Why is Waldmüller, prominent in 19th century Austria, being given a London show? Noted in his day for landscapes and portraits (he painted Beethoven) he fell out with the art establishment over his rejection of “academic” landscape painting. Did his realist landscape painting “awaken” possibilities later seized on by the Impressionists? Unlikely – they knew nothing of him. His radical landscapes were an important idea but, not being in the right place at the right time, came to nothing.