Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger

This 19th-century Austrian painter captured sweeping alpine landscapes and quiet village scenes in oils. Three of his works here date from the 1820s and 1830s, including a crisp winter view of Vienna’s suburbs painted in 1821. He favored broad, sunlit skies and sharply modeled foregrounds, a style that looks back to classic landscape traditions without any single named movement. Take a closer look at the 1830 village scene on the left—its church steeple rises above a row of poplar trees in sharp morning light.