Museum and Study Center on European Landscape Painting of Lazio, Olevano Romano

The dual designation, as Museum and Study Center, reflects the unique nature of this institution housed in Villa de Pisa, owned by the municipality, where in the 1990s the Association Friends of the Olevano Museum, besides managing the collection it owns, organizes intensive research and exhibition activities aimed at illustrating the role played by the Lazio municipality from the late eighteenth century as a meeting place for foreign artists and a forum for the different pictorial expressions on the theme of “romantic landscape”.

Alongside the exhibitions and international conferences, the Museum is characterized by the collection of nineteenth-century etchings by J. A. Koch, the drawings and lithographs of F. Salathè, A. Hallman, K. Lindemann-Frommel, F. Drebere, F. G. Arndt, artists all from the 19th century. The works of W. Strich-Chapell and F. H. Becker, representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, and of H. Hindorf, whose activity during his stay in Olevano is dedicated a specific room with works portraying the landscape and local people, belong to the 1920s and 1930s. A substantial and remarkable collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors from the 1960s to today is also of considerable interest.