Woge. 1912.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. Numbered by hand verso on the stretcher. 105.5 x 166 cm (41.5 x 65.3 in).

• Expressive depiction of a wave in which Karl Hagemeister captured the “battle of the elements” on canvas.
• In the year of its creation, the painting attracted nationwide attention in Germany through an exhibition at Galerie Heinemann in Munich.
• Karl Hagemeister is considered one of the most important German landscape painters around the turn of the century.
• In 1898, he co-founded the Berlin Secession with Max Liebermann and others.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired in 2015, Van Ham Cologne).

LITERATURE: Hendrikje Warmt, Karl Hagemeister. In Reflexion der Stille. Monograph and catalogue raisonné of paintings, Berlin 2016, no. G508 (illustrated).