The landscape has held a central place in Danish visual art over the past 200 years. In this collection display, Horsens Art Museum draws on its own collection of landscape paintings to illustrate how this development has unfolded through a series of highlights from different periods.

Visitors can experience beautiful and harmonious depictions of nature, as seen in the works of artists such as C.W. Eckersberg, J. Th. Lundbye, and P.C. Skovgaard. P.C. Skovgaard helped shape a national image of Denmark through his paintings of beech forests, fields, coastlines, and tranquil skies. The landscape was not only painted as nature, but also as a symbol of the homeland and Danish identity. Later in the nineteenth century, perspectives began to change, and nature was increasingly perceived and experienced more directly.

Throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day, the landscape has increasingly been used as a vehicle for experimentation with colour, form, and personal expression. It became a space for emotions, symbolism, and abstraction. In this collection display, these developments are represented through paintings by artists such as Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Martin Erik Andersen, Mogens Zieler, and Peter Bonde.

The collection display will be on view from 2 June 2026.