The Lighthouse Keeper

Water, Ice & Distance

Medium

Chalk pastel

Dimensions

60 × 40 cm

Year

Undated

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The Lighthouse Keeper

A figure keeping the sea from the land and the land from the sea, with forces and characters unseen in the natural world. We can almost pick out signs of life in the yellow glow of the lighthouse top. We also notice that the white crests of the waves crashing on the rocks are spread out like a hand, aiming to claw the structure down into the sea. The pastel strokes, especially in the sea, are raw and vivid. The composition is heavily influenced by Caspar David Friedrich's Monk by the Sea, which the artist viewed in Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie.

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