Of Gardens, Landscapes
and Pictures

Landscape gardens in art from
the Baroque to the present

Neuhardenberg Castle's landscape garden is the gem of the ensemble. It was created by Peter Joseph Lenné, Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau and John Adey Repton 200 years ago and continues to enjoy immense popularity. Its beauty is not least also due to the fact that its creators based their design on the principles of painting: sight lines, playing with perspective and the grouping and highlighting of single trees are just some of the typical characteristics guided by art that define this type of great garden, which is called an 'English landscape garden', throughout the world. However, the inspiration between garden design and art is mutual. Artists were also inspired by landscape gardens and found new subjects and something of interest there in every art period.

The exhibition tells the story of this varied history, from art to the park and back to art. On show are paintings of baroque parks that symbolised power, 18th century landscape paintings that inspired the design of the English gardens, Romantic works that are expressions of inner landscapes, Impressionist studies of light and atmosphere, early 20th century representations in the form of observations of social spaces, Expressionist images of parks that are emotionally charged scenes in intense colours with balanced lines and photographs that reveal the structure and rhythm of these parks, as well as contemporary creations that question the relationship between humankind and nature. The exhibition features works that are as multilayered and diverse as a garden by famous and less well-known artists from six centuries.