1911, Max Pechstein, In den Dunen (In the Dunes) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In a flamboyant end-of-day light, Pechstein seeks to express an ideal unity between man and nature.
It was on the Nida peninsula in East Prussia (now Lithuania) that Max Pechstein painted this scene, marked by the memory of Cézanne's and Gauguin's bathers. The three figures, their curves contoured in black and the orange shade of their flesh, tint integrate harmoniously with the landscape built up with broad elongated touches. Influenced by French Fauvism, the violence of the contrasts, the rawness of the tones and the vigour of the touch are characteristic of the Expressionism of the Die Brücke group, of which Pechstein was a member.
1911, Max Pechstein, In den Dunen (In the Dunes) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In a flamboyant end-of-day light, Pechstein seeks to express an ideal unity between man and nature.
It was on the Nida peninsula in East Prussia (now Lithuania) that Max Pechstein painted this scene, marked by the memory of Cézanne's and Gauguin's bathers. The three figures, their curves contoured in black and the orange shade of their flesh, tint integrate harmoniously with the landscape built up with broad elongated touches. Influenced by French Fauvism, the violence of the contrasts, the rawness of the tones and the vigour of the touch are characteristic of the Expressionism of the Die Brücke group, of which Pechstein was a member.