Max Clarenbach

Tidal Flats near Wyck, 1921/22

Painted in the early 1920s, the work entitled “Tidal Flats near Wyck” shows the wide view from Wyk beach across the mudflats, which are only partially covered by water. To depict the seabed, the artist selected a colour scheme of finely nuanced blues, greys and browns, which he spread into narrow bands, widening occasionally into broader pools of water, in the lower part of the painting. Similar colours are reserved for portraying the sky, with the horizontal, more clearly contoured structures o...

Beschriftung: M. Clarenbach, unten links

Privatbesitz (bis 2010); MKdW (2010).
Nicola Carola Heuwinkel: Max Clarenbach 1880–1952, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von Thorsten Sadowsky, Alkersum/Föhr 2013, S. 72, Abb. S. 73.

Max Clarenbach (1880 - 1952)

Tidal Flats near Wyck

1921/22

Oil on board

35.5 x 44 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 CLA 03

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2010

Not on display