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Abstract

In the 19th century, in the crossing of Romanticism and Realism, a specific kind of landscape painting was formed - mood land scapes. They were realistic and also had some features of Romanticism. Romanticism left a sensitive element of painting structure transformed to concept mood. Realism changed a romantic relation of a dreamer to the nature into its objective and direct analysis. In the plastic expression, special attention was given to colour and light, and in trying to obtain an entire mood of a picture, principles of tonic painting were applied. Authors of mood landscapes denied the hierarchy of genres that was vital at that time. They protested against monumental multifigure compositions and paid attention to the vitality of nature. Mood landscapes were widespread. In the middle of the 19th century, beside traditional pictures they became popular in France, Germany, Poland, and Lithuania. The sources of these landscapes are linked to English romantic paintings (such painters as John Constable, William Turner) and the 17th century Dutch landscape painting. The first distinct appearance is noticed in the middle of the 19th century in the works of the representatives of the French Barbizon school. The German painters continued and developed mood landscape creation in their own culture in their own way. Munich became the centre of German mood landscape painters, and from there mood landscapes spread to various European countries, including Lithuania. In the 80s of the 19th century, Tadas Daugirdas, Stanislovas Vitkevičius, Edvardas Matas Römeris studied in Munich. They closely associated with a group of Polish artists in the capital of Bavaria. Unique principles of mood landscapes were formed in these surroundings. The features of landscapes of Polish and German painters left traces in the painting of Lithuanian artists.