Otto Modersohn - Mondaufgang (Überschwemmung)
Otto Modersohn
Mondaufgang (Überschwemmung)
1942
Oil on canvas 49.3 x 69.5 cm Framed. Signed and dated 'O Modersohn 42' lower left. - In very fine condition.
This landscape is typical of Modersohn's late period in Fischerhude. The artist had always been a keen observer of nature, but after he became blind in one eye, he is said to have only painted in his studio. In this respect, the current composition can be regarded as an "impression", a sensitive depiction of a meditative mind. The character of the landscape is rendered in a calm, emphatic and direct manner, and seems to have led the artist's imagination into a kind of dream-like land.
Catalogue Raisonné
Atelierbuch Otto Modersohn 1942, no. 183 (studio book; here titled "Mondaufgang")
Certificate
With an expertise from Christian Modersohn, Otto-Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude, dated 12 February 2005. We would like to thank Rainer Noeres, Otto-Modersohn-Museum Fischerhude, for his additional information dated 7 April 2014.
Provenance
Private possession, Hamburg; Private possession, North Germany
Exhibitions
Fischerhude 2004 (Kunstverein Fischerhude, Buthmanns Hof), "Ortsbilder" (without cat.)