Northern Lights - Hatje Cantz

A hardcover book titled Northern Lights, angled on a white background. The cover features an expressionist painting of a coastal landscape with a purple sky and swirling green and white forms in the foreground. The spine of the book is a matching purple with the title in silver lettering.

A book titled Northern Lights, with the title in silver text over an expressionist painting. The artwork depicts a coastal landscape with stylized green trees in the foreground overlooking a purple body of water with two small sailboats. The sky is a mix of purples and pinks above distant dark hills.

The cover of a book featuring an impressionist-style painting of a winter landscape. The view is from a high vantage point, looking down on a sunlit evergreen forest covering rolling hills. A snow-covered slope with long blue shadows and tracks is on the right, and a vast, frozen lake stretches across the background under a pale sky.

A photograph of an open art book showing a two-page spread of paintings by J.E.H. MacDonald. The left page features an impressionistic painting of a fiery orange sunset over a lake. The right page shows a winter landscape with a snow-covered foreground and a dark forest in the background.

An open book on a white surface displays a vivid, abstract image across a two-page spread. Against a black background, granular, flame-like shapes in bright green, yellow, orange, and purple swirl upwards from the center of the pages.

An open book with a two-page spread. The left page features a full-page, black-and-white photograph of artist Anna Boberg dressed in heavy winter gear, standing in the snow and holding a portable easel. The right page is a biography of the artist, headed with the title ANNA BOBERG 1864-1935.

A two-page spread from an art book about Lawren S. Harris, displaying two of his stylized paintings of Lake Superior. On the left, dramatic beams of light break through dark clouds over purple rocks in the water. On the right, a serene blue landscape shows a calm lake with smooth, dark rocks in the foreground and long, thin clouds.

An old, sepia-toned photograph of four people and a dog posing outside a rustic log cabin by a lake. The group includes three women in long dresses and a man in a hat and suspenders. The foreground is littered with large tree stumps and a two-man saw, indicating a logging area.

An oil painting by Helmi Biese from 1899 titled Archipelago Landscape. The scene depicts a rugged, rocky coastline with gnarled pine trees growing between large, grey boulders. In the background, a wide expanse of blue water stretches to the horizon under a partly cloudy sky, with small, tree-covered islands visible in the distance.

A painting by Harald Sohlberg, Country Road II, depicting a rural landscape at sunset. A large, dark pine tree dominates the right foreground, set against a glowing yellow and orange sky. A winding dirt road leads from an open wooden gate through green fields towards a dark forest and distant purple mountains.

A stylized painting of a night landscape. The top half shows dark silhouettes of pine trees against a dusky blue sky. The bottom half is darker, with a view through the trees to a small, isolated white house illuminated on a patch of bright green grass in the lower right.

A two-page spread from a book, likely an art exhibition catalog. The left page, titled LENDERS, lists various museums, galleries, and collections. The right page shows the table of contents, with section titles such as PLATES, BIOGRAPHIES, and various essays, each with its corresponding page number.

A page spread from an art book titled NORTHERN LIGHTS: AN INTRODUCTION by Ulf Küster. The left side features a large painting by Helmi Biese titled Coastal Landscape, ca. 1904, depicting a windswept, tree-lined coast overlooking a large body of water. The right side contains the beginning of the introductory essay for the exhibition.

A two-page book spread comparing paintings by Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Edvard Munch. On the left is Gallen-Kallela's Kalela on a Winter Night, a snowy scene of a wooden house with a lit window. On the right is Munch's Children in the Forest, showing a group of small children before a dark, ominous forest under a swirling sky.

An art book spread featuring two paintings by Anna Boberg of the Northern Lights in Norway. The painting on the left is a landscape showing green and yellow aurora rising behind dark mountains reflected in water. The painting on the right is a vertical composition depicting a vibrant cascade of blue and purple light over a rocky shoreline.

A two-page spread from an art book about Edvard Munch, displaying two of his paintings. On the left is Spruce Forest, an expressionist work with vibrant greens and blues. On the right is The Yellow Log, a snowy forest scene with a prominent, freshly cut yellow log in the foreground.

An open art book showing a two-page spread of paintings by Edvard Munch. On the left, Mondschein, is a nocturnal coastal scene with the moon's reflection forming a column of light on the water. On the right, Vampir im Wald, depicts a woman with long red hair embracing a man in a dense green forest.

A two-page spread from a book on artist Emily Carr, displaying two of her paintings. On the left, Abstract Tree Forms is a horizontal painting with dynamic, flowing waves of green, blue, and yellow. On the right, the vertical painting Forest, British Columbia depicts a stylized forest with massive, swirling tree trunks and a dark, undulating canopy.

An expressive oil painting of a dense winter forest by Lawren S. Harris. Thick, heavy blankets of white snow cover the branches of dark trees, creating stylized, drooping shapes. The scene is rendered in a cool palette of blues and purples, with a snowy path leading toward a pale light in the distance.

A vibrant digital rendering of a magical cave created from millions of glowing particles in neon green, yellow, and purple against a black background. A wooden walkway leads into the center of the cavern, where a small, lone figure stands, gazing into the ethereal, dreamlike scene.

Northern Lights

€ 58.00

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Edited by: Ulf Küster für die Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel

February 2025, 240 Pages, 140 Photos

Hardcover

234mm x 274mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5915-1

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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The Forest in modernist art

The fascination of the North is enduring: vast, impenetrable coniferous forests on the edge of the Arctic polar region, "white" summer nights, the long darkness of snowy winters and the famous Northern Lights exert a magical attraction. The Fondation Beyeler is dedicating an exhibition to this global phenomenon with landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada. In addition to works by famous painters such as Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Hilma af Klint, it also features paintings by artists who are highly respected in their home countries, but who—unjustly—have been virtually unknown in Central Europe until now. The Nordic pictorial worlds of Harald Sohlberg, Gustaf Fjæstad, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and Prince Eugen of Sweden are finally being presented to a wide audience. Other artists represented in the exhibition and catalogue are Ivan Shishkin, Anna Boberg, Helmi Biese, Lawren S. Harris and J. E. H. Macdonald.

EXHIBITION

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, January 26 - May 25, 2025

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, August 1, 2025 - January 12, 2026