1920, Max Pechstein, Departing Boats, Nidden -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Pechstein painted this scene at Nidden, a remote fishing village by the Baltic Sea. It belongs to a group of works titled Fischerleben (The Lives of Fishermen). Pechstein presents the fishermen in a stylised manner. The jagged angular lines and areas of flat bold colouring are characteristic of the Brücke group, to which the artist belonged from 1906-12. In composing this scene, Pechstein has drawn upon his long-standing interests in folk life, tribal art, and unmodulated colour to convey an Expressionist vision of rural harmony.
1920, Max Pechstein, Departing Boats, Nidden -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Pechstein painted this scene at Nidden, a remote fishing village by the Baltic Sea. It belongs to a group of works titled Fischerleben (The Lives of Fishermen). Pechstein presents the fishermen in a stylised manner. The jagged angular lines and areas of flat bold colouring are characteristic of the Brücke group, to which the artist belonged from 1906-12. In composing this scene, Pechstein has drawn upon his long-standing interests in folk life, tribal art, and unmodulated colour to convey an Expressionist vision of rural harmony.