937 - Hans Böhm, "Brockenblick (Oberes Ilsetal)", forest dale with mountain brook, Harz painter, landscape

Hans Böhm, "Brockenblick (Oberes Ilsetal)", forest dale with mountain brook, Harz painter, landscape (1926 Clausthal-Zellerfeld – 1998 Clausthal-Zellerfeld), oil/hardboard, signed lower left "H. Böhm", titled on the reverse "Brockenblick" with the addition "(oberes Ilsetal)" and inscribed "Original v. H. Böhm, Kunstmaler", 20th century, forest valley in the Harz, on the left a slope with tall spruces and pink-flowering foxglove, on the right a dark group of spruces, in the centre a stony stream, behind it wooded ridges and the blue-green summit dome with buildings, sky with cumulus clouds, condition commensurate with age, image 60.5x80 cm (HxW), framed, frame width 7 cm Hans Böhm was born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1926 and died there in 1998. The Ilse valley lies in the northern Harz between Goslar and Wernigerode: the Ilse rises near the summit of the 1141-metre Brocken, the valley reaches from the national park town of Ilsenburg at 250 metres up to the mountain, and the upper Ilse valley refers to the higher mountain areas around the source. Heinrich Heine made the valley known in literature; the Heinrich-Heine-Weg still leads through the valley to the Plessenburg today.