resin landscape

A wide river runs through the picture. Huge boulders store in and on the edge of the river. In the Harz countryside you often encounter boulders made of granite rock. Walter Kuphal has chosen this motif and thus created a special picture. The atmosphere is created by the choice of very dark colors. On the slopes on the right and left there is dense dark coniferous forest. Some elaborated spruces in brighter green and a section of the bright sky set a light point in this picture. It is signed at the bottom right. Walter Kuphal was born in Neuruppin in 1890 and died there in 1937. He trained as a lithographer. Later he worked in the operation of the “Theater Painting” in Neuruppin. He then studied with the landscape painter Hans Licht in Berlin. He found his motives near his native place. Travels to southern Germany, the Baltic Sea and the Harz brought him to other topics. He created watercolors, etchings, lithographies and oil paintings. (Wernigerode Harz Museum)