Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), Die Jahreszeiten: Der Herbst (Seasons of the Year: Autumn), 1803. Brush with brown ink over underlying pencil drawing on vellum paper, 7-1/2 x 10-13/16 in. (19.1 x 27.5 cm). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, on permanent loan from the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung (FV 79). © bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB / Volker-H. Schneider

MADRID, SPAIN.- The Juan March Foundation presents The Abstraction of Landscape – From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism, on view through January 13, 2008. Nineteenth-century Romantic landscape painting and the Northern tradition as the origin of modern abstraction. The premise set forth in 1975 by the renowned art historian and professor Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006), inspires this exhibition with which the Fundación Juan March inaugurates its artistic season in October. It is comprised of some 100 works on paper by 25 European and American artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock, lent by various institutions on both continents. The exhibition attempts to reveal visually, through the works of great masters, the evolution of the Romantic landscape throughout modern times up to its progressive abstraction by the American Abstract Expressionists and certain European contemporary artists. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=22145