Museum Center for the Study of European Landscape Painting of Lazio, Olevano Romano

The dual designation, as both Museum and Study Center, reflects the unique nature of this institution housed in the Villa de Pisa, municipally owned, where in the 1990s the Association Friends of the Olevano Museum, in addition to managing the collection it owns, organizes an intense research and exhibition activity aimed at illustrating the role played by the Lazio municipality since 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 distinguished 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 also from the nineteenth century. The works of W. Strich-Chapell and F. H. Becker, proponents 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. The collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors from the 1960s to today is also substantial and of remarkable interest.