Bertha Schilling Painting

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Bertha Schilling 1870 -1953 Impressionist of the North

Atmospheric, impressionistic painting by the artist Bertha Schilling. With this colorful late summer/early autumn painting of a sun-drenched avenue in her adopted home of Fischerhude, the painter created a declaration of love for this region popular with artists.

The picture offered here, painted in oil on canvas in landscape format, shows, as already mentioned, a path in nature flanked by trees. Some trees are still in lush green, others have already changed to autumnal yellow-green. Often also referred to as "Indian Summer".

The painting technique, the brushstroke, powerful with bright primary colors, applied quickly, is skillful and convincing.
It is signed Bertha Schilling bottom right, when the paint was still fresh.

Image size: 73.5 x 64.5 cm
Total size with frame: 85 x 65 x 6 cm.
The frame in a patinated old silver gold harmonizes very well with the painting.
The condition of the picture is excellent. An older repair on the back was left as it is not visible on the front.
The picture was carefully restored, including cleaning and removing/renewing the varnish layer.

Artist information on Bertha Schilling in the fold-out long description

*About Bertha Schilling:
German painter and graphic artist as well as pianist and organist.
Born in 1870 in Arnsberg in the Sauerland, died in 1953 in Fischerhude.
She came from a wealthy factory owner family from Siegen, was a student at the Higher Girls' School in Siegen and, with the support of her family, studied at the painting school of the Association of Women Artists in Berlin under Karl Wendel, Hans Baluschek and George Mosson. Influenced by the painting of Vincent van Gogh and the Pointillists, she worked in Fischerhude from around 1911, supported here by Wilstedt's headmaster Karl von Bargen and the founder of the Heimathaus Foundation Irmintraut Hinrich Schloen.
She was a member of the painting group "Junge Wilde von 1911" and was friends with Otto Modersohn. Various study trips took her to the Alps, the Eifel, the Harz, the Curonian Spit, Nidden and Hiddensee, among other places.
She was a member of the Hiddensee Women Artists' Association, a member of the Berlin Women Artists' Association, the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany and the Bremen Artists' Association.

Schilling inherited her love of open-air painting from her teacher George Mosson, and this painting was probably created directly in nature, which explains the authenticity of the impression captured....
The melancholic Modersohn and the optimist Schilling were unequal colleagues over the years, but they were friends, and so it is amusing when it is recorded that Schilling said of Modersohn, "He is absolutely sure of the color, but not always in the composition," while Modersohn said, "She is absolutely sure of the composition of her pictures, but not always in the color tone." Further historical background information about Bertha Schilling and other female artists of this time,...who were often disregarded at the time because of their gender and only gained recognition in recent decades, can also be found in the book published in 2024:
"I want to paint everything - The painting women - fearless female artists around 1900" by Behling/Manigold.