The Dutch Landscape in Focus To look at the work of Johan Ernst Bäumer is to confront the specific, unvarnished reality of the Dutch landscape. He was not a painter of grand, sweeping myths, but a man preoccupied with the actual topography of the Netherlands. His output, spanning from the late nineteenth century until his death in 1919, reflects a commitment to the physical truth of the land. He captured the specific light and soil of…