961 - Hoeppner, Rising Mallards in a Moorland Landscape, 1982

Hoeppner, Rising Mallards in a Moorland Landscape, 1982 Oil on canvas, signed and dated 82 lower right, above still moorland water drake and duck are already in the air, the drake with blue head and outspread wings above the tussocks, the duck offset above him to the left, at the left a broadly spreading pollarded willow, at the right tussocks of yellow sedge grass and individual reed stalks, the sky in hazy grey-green, the distant bank following softly, good condition, image 40.5x50.5 cm (HxW) The tonally restrained moorland mood with waterfowl taking flight goes back to north German landscape painting of the late 19th century and was continued in the hunting painting of the 20th century as a pictorial type of its own. Characteristic is the narrow, almost monochrome scale from which only the head plumage of the drake emerges in colour.