The exhibition Onderweg naar Bentheim shows Twente through the eyes of Ruisdael, Hobbema, Waterloo and many other artists of the period with more than 35 works.

The seventeenth-century drawings of the Twente landscape show how artists of the period, sometimes en plein air, sometimes on a large scale, chose the world around them as their subject and immortalized the rolling, wooded landscape in works of art. In addition, the exhibition shows how the Twente landscape continued to inspire artists in drawing and painting long after their visit.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum Twente and the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. The works on display range from sketchbooks to large-format drawings and landscape paintings.