Else Berg artwork • painting • previously for sale Village in South Limburg
Else Berg
Ratibor (Silezië) 1877-1942 Auschwitz (Polen)
1877-1942
Village in South Limburg
oil on panel 26.9 x 34.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1934
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: vgl.: Mabel Hoogendonk en Klaas Beeldman, 'Else Berg (1877-1942). Schilderijen, aquarellen en tekeningen', Amsterdam 1989, pag. 83, afb. 45.
The Upper Silesia-born painter Else Berg was one of the first in the Netherlands to be drawn to the sober forms and vivid colour use of the German Expressionists. In a robustly composed language she painted landscapes, figures and still lifes. After she moved with her husband, Mommie Schwarz, to Bergen in 1915, her palette became more sombre, even though the vivid pinks, yellows and blues still recall German Expressionism. The rhythmic, fanning out of her brushstrokes refer to the influence of theosophy, with which she came into contact via her friend Charley Toorop.
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