Artist: Anders Andersen-Lundby (1841–1923)
Title: English: An autumn walk in the English Garden of Munich. German: Herbstspaziergang im englischen Garten in München.
Date: 1887
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: height: 77 cm (30.3 in); width: 106 cm (41.7 in)
Inscriptions: Signature and date: 1887
What I love about this painting:
Once again, I was scouring Wikimedia Commons and kept returning to a painting I previously featured. I first saw it in October of 2025 and loved it.
Anders Anderson-Lundby shows us the perfect autumn day for a stroll. Truthfully, the day looks so pleasant that I’d like to be walking there. The leaves are nearly off the trees, and those that remain are golden and brown. Those who walk in these woods seem happy, content to be outdoors while the weather remains decent.
An unusually dry and overcast autumn has arrived here in the Pacific Northwest, a slightly less warm continuation of the dry, overcast summer we just experienced. Did I mention that it has been dry and overcast for what feels like years? For the last few months, the sun waited to break through until late in the afternoon. When it did, it dispelled the gloom in a short burst of “This is what you could have all the time if you lived in Honolulu.”
But today, we have rain and wind. Will it be enough to break the drought? A month of it would help, but that is unlikely in this year of the Super El Nino. The east coast suffers unusually wet weather while our forests get ever dryer, ever more likely to go up in flames.
Regardless of the rain we have today, the deciduous groves in my part of the world will soon look like the foliage in this painting. Even now, the native big-leaf maples are shading toward yellow and brown. Their leaves have begun falling and soon their branches will be bare.
However, color abounds in suburban neighborhoods across my county. The Japanese maples and other non-native trees brightening gardens and public through-ways have turned a bright red. Soon our native vine maples and that (now undomesticated) decorative-plant-gone-native, staghorn sumac, will also be dressed in scarlet.
About the Artist, via Wikipedia:
Anders Andersen-Lundby (December 16, 1841 – January 4, 1923) was a Danish landscape painter. He was most associated with winter landscapes.
(He) was born in Lundby, Denmark. He grew up in Lundby near Aalborg. In 1861, when he was twenty, Andersen-Lundby traveled to Copenhagen, and there he exhibited his works for the first time in 1864. By 1870, he gained popularity especially with his winter landscapes from both Denmark and southern Germany, most often with fallen snow or thaw.
In 1876, he moved to Munich with his family where he exhibited his paintings. He frequently visited Denmark and participated in exhibitions there. He exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 1864–1913. [1]
To view more of Anders Anderson-Lundby’s work, go to Anders Andersen-Lundby – Wikipedia.
Credits and Attributions:
IMAGE: Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Anders Andersen-Lundby – Herbstspaziergang im Englischen Garten (1887).jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Anders_Andersen-Lundby_-_Herbstspaziergang_im_Englischen_Garten_(1887).jpg&oldid=1068508759 (accessed September 24, 2026).
[1] Wikipedia contributors, “Anders Andersen-Lundby,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anders_Andersen-Lundby&oldid=1191864454 (accessed September 24, 2026).
