Albert Kruger After Max Liebermann, The Flax Barn at Laren

Albert Kruger After Max Liebermann, The Flax Barn at LarenThis late 19th century etching by German draughtsman Albert Kruger (b. 1858) is after a painting by Max Liebermann (1847 1935). The rhythmical monotony of the spinners, organised like a rigid machine, echoes through the low barn. Youths, hunched by square windows, wind flax onto spindles. While women stand in clogged feet, working tirelessly with aching bones. Liebermann captured their daily grind with aplomb, avoiding sentiment in favour of laborious

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 21” x 17” / 54cm x 44cmYear of creation: c

719 achieved for ‘Nature Morte Au Bouquet’

There’s also a prominent cameo proudly attached to her waist

on the reverse

Hamish studied at Edinburgh School of Art and exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibitions between 1912 and 1949

Devé has rendered the view sublimely

As you can imagine

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Stival’s work was exhibited widely during his lifetime - in France at the Salon des Indépendants

a group of painters were described as the ‘Kirkcudbright School’

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