Otto Modersohn - Blick auf den Weyerberg (Blick auf den Weyerberg (View of the Weyerberg)), 1940

Oil on canvas

57 x 75 cm / framed 88 x 106 cm
22 x 29 inch / framed 34 x 41 inch

Signed bottom right, dated

– with handmade craftsman's frame –

N 8702

Expertise:

Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude - Rainer Noeres vom 09.09.2009

Provenance:

Privatbesitz Bremen

Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude

Exhibitions:

Essen, Galerie Neher, Herbst-Winter 2022/2023, Katalog mit farbiger Abbildung Seite 19

About the work

The Weyerberg is a 50-meter high sandy elevation located in the region of Teufelsmoor near the village of Worpswede. Here Otto Modersohn depicts the shallow hill in the twilight of the setting sun – in the foreground evening is drawing in – whereas the sky and the background are still bathed in the sun's warm afterglow. His later wife Paula Becker was fulsome in her praise of Modersohn and his evocative landscapes whilst on vacation in Worpswede in 1897. “He had something soft, something sympathetic in his eyes. The landscapes of his which I saw in the exhibition were profoundly atmospheric: the hot, searing August sun or a mysterious, sultry evening. I would like to meet this Modersohn.”(1)

1   Paula Modersohn-Becker, Journal, 24.7.1897, quoted from: Paula Modersohn-Becker in Briefen und Tagebüchern, ed. by Günter Busch and Liselotte von Reinken, revised and expanded new edition, ed. by Wolfgang Becker, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 124.

Text authored and provided by Dr. Eva Müller-Remmert, Art Historian

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