Hans Peter Feddersen

Dandelion Seeds, 1880

Produced around 1880, the painting “Dandelion Seeds” by Hans Peter Feddersen shows an old polder dike on the left edge of the picture. It marks the boundary between the narrow light-blue sky and a lush marshland meadow in bright green that takes up broad swathes of the picture. On it, the ripe seeds of white dandelion clocks await the moment when they are caught on a breeze. By contrast, yellow dandelion flowers direct the viewer’s gaze far into the background, where two cows are grazing and a m...

Signatur: HPF., unten rechts, handschriftlich

Hans Peter Feddersen-Nachlass (bis 1943); Privatbesitz, Flensburg (bis 2001); MKdW (2001).
Hans Peter Feddersen 1848–1941. Von Luft und Licht. Von Wind und Wolken, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Heide 2015, S. 45, Kat. 4.
Werkverzeichnis Online: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~bochmann/MalerFeddersen/index.html, bereitgestellt von Gregor von Bochmann, Kat. F 0298.

Hans Peter Feddersen (1848 - 1941)

Dandelion Seeds

1880

Oil on canvas, mounted on wood

35 x 50.2 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 FED 06

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2001

Not on display

Derzeit zu sehen / Currently on display: Landesmuseum Hannover (bis / until May 2026)