Spring morning 1927

Heinrich Ferdinand Werner made this landscape, Spring Morning, with crayon on paper. You can see the strokes, they’re not trying to hide, it’s all about the process. There’s a muted palette, mostly greys, blues and browns, creating a hazy atmosphere. The texture of the paper adds to the softness, like looking at something through a screen. The bare trees reach up, their branches like delicate veins against the sky. Look at the way Werner uses short, broken lines to build up the forms, especially in the foreground. It's as if he's capturing not just the scene, but the feeling of a spring morning, the subtle shifts in light and the quiet energy of nature awakening. Maybe Cezanne was on his mind, or maybe he just wanted to capture the feeling of a time of day. It's that ambiguity that makes art so interesting, it doesn’t have to land exactly, but it can still move you.