Museum center for the study of European landscape painting of Lazio, Olevano Romano

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

Alongside the exhibitions and international conferences, the Museum is qualified 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 19th century. The works of W. Strich-Chapell and F. H. Becker, exponents of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, and of H. Hindorf, whose activity during his stay in Olevano is dedicated to a specific room with works depicting the landscape and local people, belong to the 1920s and 1930s. Also considerable and of notable interest is the collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors from the 1960s to the present day.