Blick ins Tal (Hindelang). 1934.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower left. 48.8 x 68.8 cm (19.2 x 27 in).
Modersohn made this painting from a position above the hamlet Gailenberg with view onto a barn, the houses of Gailenberg and the Hinterstein mountain range in background.

We are grateful to Mr Rainer Noeres, Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (acquired directly from the artist and the artist's family respectively; since then in possession of the family).

"The mountains have an ever stronger appeal to me. They are romantic, curious, mysteriou, just like the moor (distant peaks, clouds, fog)."
O. Modersohn, Tagebucheintrag 1934, quote from: O. Modersohn. Allgäu 1926-1939, Fischerhude 1990, p. 159.