Summer Day near Worpswede
1905
Step into the flat, marshy world of northern Germany with Otto Modersohn, a key figure in the bohemian Worpswede artist colony. Painted in 1905, this scene features a lonely dirt track winding past a small white shed and birch trees, all dwarfed by a huge, cloud-speckled blue sky. Modersohn and his wife, the famous Paula Modersohn-Becker, were obsessed with capturing the unique light of this region, moving away from strict realism toward the emotional color and loose brushstrokes that would define early German Expressionism.
- Technique
- Oil painting