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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture places American art squarely in the center of a conversation about Humboldt’s lasting influence on the way we think about our relationship to the natural world. Humboldt’s quest to understand the universe — his concern for climate change, his taxonomic curiosity ...
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About this Artwork. In 1805 Humboldt and Bonpland published this plant geography map, which Humboldt called his Naturgemälde or “picture of nature.”. It combines illusionistic watercolor with a cutaway diagram labeled with the plants he and Bonpland observed in South America, shown at the altitudes where they found them.
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The fifth season of Sidedooraired this episode, "The Last Man Who Knew It All," about how Alexander von Humboldt, through science and art, inspired a key part of America's national identity. Some of the brightest minds and prominent scientific thinkers of the era embraced Humboldt’s expansive thinking: inspired by Humboldt’s early publications, Cha...
In my work on American landscape painting, I knew that Humboldt had inspired American artist Frederic Edwin Church to travel to South America and that his influential advice to landscape painters formed a substantial component of his second volume of Cosmos, published in English in 1849. Humboldt was a lifelong abolitionist and had supported John C...
Humboldt spent his lifetime increasing knowledge, and as that knowledge diffused, so too did the connection to his name. During the 19th century, towns, counties and streets across the U.S. bore his name; in the decade following his death, statues were erected in parks across the country. When the Nevada Territory petitioned for statehood in 1864, ...
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Explore a selection of related art and items in the Smithsonian collections. Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most important naturalist of the 19th century. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, at the Smithsonian American Art... Learn more.
Apr 22, 2020 · A Brush with Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church. How Humboldt’s ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists and critics, including the influential Hudson River school painters. Katie Hondorf. Public Affairs Specialist. April 22, 2020.
Oct 15, 2019 · His ideas were revolutionary for the 19th century, and they remain relevant today for scientists studying the effects of climate change. Next spring, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens a ...
A major upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, explores Humboldt’s impact on America across five spheres of cultural development—the visual arts, sciences, literature, politics and exploration—between 1804 and 1903.
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