---
type: exposition
title: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
language: en
url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/ferdinand-georg-waldmuller"
---

# Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller 

![Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_490282840069.jpg.webp?itok=J77QS4Rh) 

**Duration:** 9 June 2009 - 11 October 2009

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 – 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of  
the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing  
rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed  
and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural everyday life: his works – brilliant,  
explanatory, moralising, and socially critical – influenced a whole generation of artists. Being an  
advocate of natural observation and plein air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting,  
Waldmüller was far ahead of his time.  
The Belvedere accommodates the Waldmüller Archive and owns the most comprehensive  
collections of his works worldwide. In this retrospective, comprising some 120 works, masterpieces  
from the Belvedere’s holdings will be complemented by loans from national and international  
collections. Several paintings that were thought to be lost will be presented to the public for the  
first time.  
The exhibition was organised in cooperation with the Musée du Louvre, Paris and was presented  
there with a selection of around 40 works in spring 2009. The show is accompanied by a  
catalogue.

### [Lower Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/lower-belvedere)

**Opening hours:** Monday to Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm

**Address:** Lower Belvedere, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there](<https://www.google.com/maps?q=Lower Belvedere,+Rennweg 6,+1030+Vienna>))

[Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=3)

##### In cooperation with 

- [Logo Uniqa](https://www.uniqa.at/)

## Impressions

- ![Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller — Ferdinand Georg Waldmu?ller, Seated Girl in a White Satin Dress, 1839 — © Wien Museum](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_490282840069_0.jpg.webp?itok=nn2XZl8F)