After the storm (Werefkin)
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| After the storm |
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| Marianne von Werefkin , 1932 |
| Tempera painting on cardboard |
| 28 cm × 38 cm cm |
| Fondazione Marianne Werefkin , Ascona |
After the storm is the title of a painting by the Russian artist Marianne von Werefkin in 1932. The work belongs to the holdings of the Fondazione Marianne Werefkin in Ascona and has the inventory number 0-0-72.
iconography
Shown are five "forward rowing boats " on Lake Maggiore , loaded with logs , heading for a port in a targeted manner. The boatmen fished the wood on the lake, which was washed into the lake by the rivers in Centovalli , Valle Maggia and Valle Verzasca after a storm from the forests of the Ticino Alps .
In the foreground three people are rowing the boats. On the left a man with a white shirt, the one on the right is wearing a red shirt. In their midst, in the mysteriously illuminated part of the lake, a woman dressed in black struggles with the oars. She is clearly disadvantaged compared to the male skippers because her boat is the only one on the lake that is not, as usual and typical for Ticino fishing boats, equipped with a tarpaulin over a frame construction to protect against rain and sun . Your cargo cannot be considered secure and would easily go overboard in high waves. The previous storm has subsided, the lake is relatively calm. The dark storm clouds are retreating into the mountains, which are covered in snow in the background.
Free fuel
In her painting, Werefkin depicts one of those severe thunderstorms that in Ticino often cause the small mountain rivers to swell to form bridges and rushing water tides. Again and again they uproot whole trees in the mountains and wash them into the lake. In Werefkin's time, those Ascones who owned a boat benefited from such a storm. As soon as the lake calmed down, they fished as much wood out of the water as they could to stock up on free fuel. In autumn 1932 Werefkin reported to her friends Carmen and Diego Hagmann in Zurich from Ascona: “These two months of rain and cold, the wood evaporated and now I had the perspective of freezing [...] We are expecting the Flood here . I have already chosen the animals to take with me. Yesterday everyone thought the end of the world would begin . At eight o'clock in the morning it was as dark as night, then a great thunderstorm came, the lights went out everywhere. [...] Whoever has money flees, whoever has none, howls from sciatica, gout, rheumatic pain. "
literature
- Clemens Weiler : Marianne von Werefkin. In exh. Cat .: Marianne Werefkin 1860–1938. Municipal Museum Wiesbaden 1958
- Bernd Fäthke: Marianne Werefkin. Munich 2001. ISBN 3-7774-9040-7
- Brigitte Roßbeck: Marianne von Werefkin, The Russian from the circle of the Blue Rider. Munich 2010.
- Bernd Fäthke : Marianne Werefkin: Clemens Weiler's Legacy. In: Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in her Circle. (Tanja Malycheva and Isabel Wünsche eds.), Leiden / Boston 2016 (English), pp. 8–19, ISBN 978-9-0043-2897-6
Individual evidence
- ^ Uwe Ramlow: Tessin, A travel companion., Frankfurt a. M./Leipzig 2005, p. 144 f.
- ↑ Bernd Fäthke: Marianne Werefkin. Munich 2001, p. 236, fig. 258, 259 and p. 237 ISBN 3-7774-9040-7