Artwork Title: Sommerwolken über Goßfelden (Summer Clouds over Gossfelden)

Sommerwolken über Goßfelden (Summer Clouds over Gossfelden)

Otto Ubbelohde

In German art, Ubbelohde is best known for his illustrations of Grimm's fairy tales.... What Ubbelohde painted in the meantime were mainly all kinds of figurative motifs that he could use for his fairy tale pictures. The painting Sommerwolken is such an atmospheric study of the sky above the fields around the village of Goßfelden where he lived.... There the land slopes slight in the wide valley of the Lahn. What we see is greyish green to dark gray low hills on the horizon. Two small figures in the middle indicate the size of the space. As can be seen in the high examples at the front, those thick summer clouds are actually bright white, but Ubbelohde uses pasty gray tones to give shape to volume and wooliness. They appear to drift from the horizon - broad and stately. I... [Google translation of https://www.groene.nl/artikel/boven-de-horizon]
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