Field Work, 1931
MediumTempera and oil on wood
(H x W)55 × 70 cm
About the workThis rural landscape by Düsseldorf painter Werner Peiner, completed in 1931 shortly after moving to the Eifel, does not seem real. Although the painting was inspired by his surroundings, it does not depict an actual location. Fields, trees and hills are systematically arranged to form a landscape with rural workers positioned like toy figures. Peiner based his works on images from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Soon after realising this picture, his backward-looking style boosted his career under National Socialism; he became a major state artist and professor of painting in Düsseldorf and the Eifel.
AccessionAcquisition 1932
Provenance1932 angekauft vom Künstler
Inventory number0.1932.5251
