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title: How Nature Found Its Way into the Living Room
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url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/stories/how-nature-found-its-way-living-room"
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# How Nature Found Its Way into the Living Room

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and the New Significance of Landscape Painting in the 19th Century

**Category:** Exhibition Collection

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**Published:** 02.06.2026

**Reading time:** 1 min read

In the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization fundamentally changed the way people viewed nature. Landscape paintings became an integral part of middle-class living spaces – not only as decoration, but also as an expression of longing, memory, and personal identity.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller played a pivotal role in this development. His detailed views of the Salzkammergut, the Vienna Prater, or Italy depict nature as a space that can be experienced directly and made real landscapes the central motif of painting.

The video offers insight into Waldmüller’s landscape painting and demonstrates why these images still feel familiar and relevant to us today.

Exhibition  

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Lower Belvedere

27 February 2026 - 14 June 2026

[ To the exhibition ](https://www.belvedere.at/en/ferdinand-georg-waldmuller-0) [ Tickets ](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B%5D=3) 

**Text:** Lisa Ebner-Kollmann

[YouTube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=6NrLUsvhQ4s)

## Video 

**Written and directed by:** Karin Pirker

**Production and art direction:** David Zuderstorfer

**Director of Photography:** Alexander Milusic

**With:** Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt