Studie, mogelijk van een landschap c. 1902 - 1914

This landscape study was made by George Hendrik Breitner with pencil on paper. It’s a flurry of lines, a kind of visual shorthand, where a few marks stand in for a whole world of sensory experience. I find myself drawn to the cluster of scribbled lines at the center, almost like a tangled knot of energy. Is it a thicket of trees, or perhaps the chaotic heart of a storm gathering on the horizon? The lines are so quick, so gestural, it's like catching a fleeting thought before it disappears. And then, above it, a series of horizontal strokes – are they clouds, or just a way to suggest the vastness of the sky? Breitner reminds me of someone like Cy Twombly, another master of the suggestive line. Both artists understood that a single mark, placed just so, could open up a whole universe of possibilities. It's a reminder that art isn't about perfect representation, but about the messy, beautiful process of seeing and feeling the world around us.