Werner Holmberg's first large-scale effort in the field of landscape painting was the imposing and dramatic Kyröskoski (1854), which he painted in Düsseldorf.
As a pictorial source he used a drawing by his contemporary Pehr
Kruskopf, emphasizing the picture's romantic grandeur by rearranging even
the lighting of the work according to the new teaching of the academy.
Holmberg strove consciously away from classically idealized theatrical
landscapes towards a more real Romantic landscape style. Back in Finland this
'austere and wonderful painting' aroused immediate admiration, but Holmberg
himself felt that he had not yet found in this austerity and grandeur the essence
of the Finnish landscape.
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The Landscape of the Düsseldorf School - Idealism, Serenity, Fervour 
Werner Holmberg : Hämäläinen humalisto Kyröskoski Myrsky Näsijärvellä Postitie Hämeessä Hjalmar Munsterhjelm : Lähestyvä ukonilma Berndt Lindholm : Koivumaisema ; Kauranleikkuu Fanny Churberg : Talvimaisema, iltarusko Kuutamo, harjoitelma Talvimaisema Karl Emanuel Jansson : Valkohilkkainen eukko Ristiässä Sakariston ovella Valkoinen uuni