827 - Pine forest, five slender pine trunks with reddish bark before a yellow meadow, woodland landscape

Pine forest, five slender pine trunks with reddish bark before a yellow meadow, woodland landscape Oil/hardboard, unsigned, forest edge with five tall, slender pine trunks with red-brown lit bark against a pale blue sky with white-grey clouds, a dark treetop upper right, behind it the edge of the forest and a bright yellow meadow, in front brown-violet ground with areas of shadow, condition commensurate with age, losses to the paint, retouching, image 53.5x39.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame chipped, frame width 3.5 cm Around 1900 Walter Leistikow (1865 to 1908) made the pine and lake landscape of the Mark Brandenburg an independent subject of Berlin landscape painting; his pictures of the Grunewald with towering pine trunks shaped the image of the Brandenburg landscape. The pine forest with reddish lit trunks at the forest edge remained a motif of North German plein-air painting in the 20th century. The pine picture is thus a woodland landscape and tree study at the forest edge in the tradition of the Brandenburg landscape.