La escuela de Humboldt en América
Subtitle: el barón Gros y los artistas viajeros del XIX
By: Halim Badawi ; prologuista Ana María Lozano ; editora Catalina Vargas Tovar
Contributors: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900; Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835; Lozano, Ana María, writer of foreword; Vargas Tovar, Catalina, editor; Bogotá (Colombia). Alcaldía Mayor; Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Investigación de arte colombiano; Investigación de arte colombiano
Publisher: Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño; Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789588471778
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Latin American Landscape painting; Latin American Art; Foreign influences; Civilization; European influences; In art
Description: The exhibition will review the influences that German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt exerted on Colombian and Latin American art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, from a selection of more than one hundred paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and ancient books. A painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (a view of Honda [Tolima] from the mid-19th century) will be shown for the first time in Colombia, as well as a collection of unpublished drawings by the German traveler Albert Berg, including a watercolor of the wax palms of Quindío, dated 1849/1850.  In addition, unknown works by neoclassic and romantic painter Antoine-Jean Gros (France 1771-1835), titled as Baron Gros in 1824 (the introducer of photography in Colombia), the German Johann Moritz Rugendas, the Mexican Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez, as well as an extensive collection of more than fifty unpublished watercolors of Latin American types and customs of the 19th century, belonging to private collections from Bogotá, elaborated under the artistic and scientific influence of Humboldt.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "La Escuela de Humboldt en América: obras y documentos" held at the Fundacion Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (FUGA) from December 9,2015 to February 8, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216).

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Presentación; title: ¿La escuela de Humboldt?; title: La escuela de Humboldt: constelaciones y significados; title: La idealización del paisaje americano: una serie anónima de pinturas de volcanes del XIX; title: Historia de un cuadro: estudio preparatorio para "Tropical Lanscape" de Frederic Edwin Church; title: Los artistas latinoamericanos miran a Humboldt; title: El barón jean-Baptiste Louis Gros: heredero de Humboldt, diplomático, fotógrafo y pintor de la naturaleza; title: Palabras finales; title: Sobre el autor.