View of the Śnieżka Mountain

Heinrich Tüpke was an artist who dealt almost exclusively with landscape. Together with his friends, painters Otto Fischer and Alfred Nickisch, he went to winter plein-airs in the Karkonosze Mountains, which took place in very dangerous conditions. Thanks to these trips, he changed the style of his works from academic to impressionist. The artist often traveled, both in Lower Silesia and the world, visited, among others Egypt, Libya and Yugoslavia. He worked with his wife, Helene Tüpke-Grande, who was also a talented artist. The presented painting was probably created during one of the winter plein-airs and shows the early stage of the artist's development. The work is still firmly rooted in the tradition of realistic painting.