Moorlandschaft. 1943.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. 50.5 x 70.5 cm (19.8 x 27.7 in).


• Characteristic landscape painting by one of the most important Worpswede artists.
• Subtle reproduction of the atmospheric evening ambiance in the transparent, misty application of paint characteristic of Modersohn's later period.
• Otto Modersohn and his fellow Worpswede artists were forerunners of a new, intuitive landscape painting and pioneers of German Modernism.
• Modersohn's evening scenes inspired Rainer Maria Rilke, who was a very early inhabitant of the Worpswedeart colony.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Northern Germany (1990s).
Private collection, Bavaria.
Private collection, Bavaria.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

LITERATURE: WV-OM-SW 1943, no. 7: Herbstlandschaft Moor (f. Tobisch) 70 x 50.