Auffliegender Graureiher am Havelufer. Um 1892.
Oil on canvas.
Warmt G 278. Lower left signed. With old, fragmentarily preserved labels on the reverse, as well as with different hand-written numbers. 75 x 120 cm (29.5 x 47.2 in).

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.

"When I go out into nature, even if it's to a place that I know very well, I'm not able to sit down and paint right away. I always have to let the surroundings sink in quietly for a long time and saturate myself with the spirit I get from the surroundings. Then, having absorbed the keynote, I bring it to the canvas as a dominant color chord."
Karl Hagemeister, about his paintings, quoted from: Hendrikje Warmt, Karl Hagemeister, Berlin 2016, p. 29