Lot 1714 Nα

Long underestimated among the genre painters of the Düsseldorf School, Hubert Salentin has recently received the attention he deserves for his distinctive works, especially thanks to Mayme Neher's 2008 monograph. The present work from 1897 is one of them. Few German painters of the 19th century were as concerned with religion in contemporary society as Hubert Salentin, who lived on the Rhine. In addition to realism, the revelation or visualisation of the divine and the recollection of the powers of the soul were at the centre of Salentin's interest in this subject matter - at least that is what the painter himself proclaimed. Mayme Neher refers to a group of works created between 1870 and 1890 with titles such as "Religious Instruction", "Pilgrimage in the Chapel", "Sunday Morning in the Black Forest" "Devotion in the Forest" or "Evening Devotion at the Lake" as a "poetic-religious genre".