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Marsh channel with peat barges
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Paula Modersohn-Becker executed this Expressionist landscape around 1900, depicting peat barges along a marsh channel near the artists' colony of Worpswede. The flat North German landscape stretches under a wide sky, with working boats adding human presence to the boggy terrain.
Modersohn-Becker discovered Worpswede in 1893 when artists from the colony exhibited in Bremen. She moved there, eventually marrying fellow painter Otto Modersohn. The marshy landscape provided endless subjects. Peat harvesting was essential local industry, and these flat-bottomed barges transported the fuel across waterways. The tempera on board measures 51 x 36 cm and belongs to a private collection. Modersohn-Becker died at just 31, but created over 700 paintings that anticipated Expressionism.
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About Marsh channel with peat barges
Peat barges on a marsh channel near Worpswede in northern Germany. Modersohn-Becker depicted the working landscape where she lived among fellow artists.
Worpswede was an artists' colony in northern Germany where Modersohn-Becker settled. The marshy landscape provided subjects for her and other painters.
The painting shows early Expressionist tendencies. Modersohn-Becker anticipated the movement despite dying young at just 31.
The tempera on board is in a private collection. It measures 51 x 36 cm, created around 1900, located in Unknown, Unknown.
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