Russian artist Marianne von Werefkin (1860 - 1938) is one of my favourite expressionists. I first encountered her work on the internet, then we saw a few of her paintings in musea before Corona, and a few weeks ago we saw dozens of her works in a fabulous exhibition in nearby Zwolle.
This 1917 work, which was also in the exhibition, is just one example of her style. Could
this landscape be more menacing? And to top it, we have the figure of
the rag collector upfront, collecting rags from the seashore or
lakeshore, likely remains from a boating accident. Morbid.
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