A blueish-grey sky with wisps of white clouds spans the flat dune landscape where three sheep are grazing. The animals help the viewer to appraise the approximate size of the dunes. Listland, known as the “elbow” on the North Sea island of Sylt, remains an impressive and seemingly untouched location with its expansive dune and heath landscape. The German-Baltic painter Eugène Gustav Dücker, who taught the landscape class at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie from 1872 to 1916, was particularly fond of...
Signatur und Datierung: E. Dücker. 1884, unten rechts
Privatbesitz (bis 2014); MKdW (2014).
W. von Oettingen, in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, N.F., 12. Jg., 1901, S. 51.