Landscape in Szklarska Poręba

Hans Oberländer was a Lower Silesian painter associated with many artistic organizations. He began his artistic education in Rostock and continued in Berlin and Wrocław. He often painted landscapes, besides, he also created panoramas of cities, portraits of both the more famous and less known figures, still lifes, genre scenes and religious paintings. Initially, he painted in the style of late Impressionism. With time, his paintings became more and more expressive, which made him known as "a temperate Kokoschka". The presented landscape shows a view of Lower Szklarska Poręba with the Catholic church and, in the background, Śnieżne Kotły (literally Snow Cauldrons) on the left and Szrenica Mountain on the right.