Dorfszene (Village Scene)

Robert A. Saurwein

Robert Saurwein created thirty-one known color woodcuts depicting Tyrolean motifs before his untimely death in World War II. In his brilliantly colored images, he captured the joyful, colorful Tyrolean culture, its landscape, architecture, sports and celebrations. In his color woodcut Dorfszene, he gives us a glimpse of Tyrolean daily life with villagers in their distinctive traditional dress, topped by black hats - the women's featuring long black ribbons - with their unique architecture and bright green hills as a backdrop.

This impression has retained rich, saturated color, almost as if it was printed yesterday, with its vivid greens and reds offset by indigo mountains and shadows.