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The Banks of the Spree near Stralau
1817
Oil on canvas, 36 x 45 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
On a stretch of the Spree popular with river trippers from Berlin, two horn players are ferried across after a day's festivities. At evening, their work, like the fishing on the river, is done, and their passage home becomes an image of human life, a crossing with connotations of death, leading to a mysterious end.