Genre painting, which beside landscape formed a part of the Düsseldorf programme, had, unlike landscape, few adherents in Finland. Karl Emanuel Jansson (1846-1874) became its only and brief exponent.
For years it had been the determined aim of Fredrik Cygnaeus to train a history painter who would be able to endow Finnish patriotism with a sense of history. Thus he came to urge also the young K.E. Jansson to choose the training of a history painter. But scenes from everyday life seemed so much more natural to Jansson that he dared to defy the wishes of this great authority.
Jansson did not feel that Düsseldorf was the right environment for
him. He probably would have felt most at home with French pleinarism,
but for this there was no opportunity.
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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
