Reichenbacher Märzlandschaft. 1971.
Oil on panel, firmly mounted in the frame.
Signature and date scratched into the moist paint in lower right. Once more signed and dated, as well as titled and inscribed on the reverse. Visible area: 52.5 x 76.5 cm (20.6 x 30.1 in). Incl. frame: 66 x 88,5 cm (25,9 x 34,8 in).
[SM].
• Wolfgang Mattheuer is considered one of the leading German landscape painters of the 20th century.
• His works range between Critical Realism and classic landscape painting of German Romanticism.
• In the 1970s, he increasingly painted allegorical landscapes infused with an ambiguous symbolism.

LITERATURE: Stefanie Michels (ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft, catalogue raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, 2017, no. G 71/5.
"art of our lives. I don't like romantic tourist landscapes, I prefer modern idylls, if you ask me. Many pictorial ideas come to me from the clash, at times brutal, between nature and technology and the human response to it. This tension seems to be essential for our time; it reveals the complexity of our present."
Wolfgang Matheuer, quoted from: Stefanie Michels (ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft, catalogue raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, 2017, p. 183