Zillilea valley

The Zillierbach flows through the valley towards Wernigerode. To the right of this is a spruce-covered mountain slope, to the left of it runs a path. The view goes to overgrown mountain slopes, with Wernigerode Palace rising on one, the Schlossberg. Individual deciduous and coniferous trees line the banks of the Zillierbach. The son of Paul Betyna says the following about his father: "If he painted, nothing could distract him, no spectator, no forester, no peasant, who was potent on his right of way. He worked very intensively and as soon as possible, because the morning sun or the evening sun gave him at most one hour to transfer the impression from the palette to the background. He didn’t like lunch time and he couldn’t suffer the summer. All spinach’, he said. Autumn, on the other hand, had colors again. Foliage in the backlight, stubble fields, haze over wet meadows, wilting petals, pines in the evening light in front of a dark edge of the forest.“Aus Gerd Ilte: Arts and Artists in Wernigerode between 1945 and 1950” The picture is large format and in good condition. It is signed at the bottom right. Paul Betyna was born in 1887 in Bromberg (near Berlin) and died in 1967 in Wernigerode. He graduated from the Paris Academy and Berlin, where he worked until 1943. By bombing it swallowed him to Wernigerode. He was a freelance artist and landscape painter. (Wernigerode Harz Museum)