Bäume im Nebel. 1909.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower left. With a label typographically numbered "1819" on the reverse. 61.5 x 81 cm (24.2 x 31.8 in).


• The barren and foggy wooded landscape conveys a sense of the cold winter day.
• During a trip to Paris in 1905, Max Clarenbach studied the works of Claude Monet.
• In the year of its creation, Clarenbach founded the artists' group "Sonderbund" with the intention of bringing German landscape painting closer to French Impressionism.
• The painting was presumably part of the “Große Berliner Kunstausstellung” in 1914.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Presumably: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, May 11 - September 27, 1914, no. 1819 (“Herbst am Niederrhein”, with a label numbered “1819” on the reverse).

LITERATURE: Christie's, New York, 19th century European paintings, drawings and watercolors, auction on February 15, 1994, lot 104 (illustrated).