North German landscape

The abstract painting „North German Landscape“ depicts a vast, flat landscape typical of northern Germany. The composition appears calm, expansive and, at the same time, atmospheric. The viewer’s gaze seems to wander over fields, bodies of water and a low horizon line into a vast sky. The sky occupies a large part of the picture plane. Delicate shades of blue, grey and pink blend into one another, evoking the ever-changing skies of northern Germany. Beneath this stretches a vast, flat landscape in shades of beige, ochre and sand. Turquoise horizontal stripes represent watercourses, whilst dark, vertical structures reminiscent of grasses and reeds appear in the lower part of the picture. The artist works with a mixture of delicate, glazed layers of paint and boldly applied, relief-like strokes of colour. This creates a unique tension between stillness and movement. The landscape is not rendered realistically, but reduced to its essential colours, forms and moods. The artwork conveys a quiet, open and slightly melancholic atmosphere.