Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right (partly in ligature, reinforced in black). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse of the canvas. 45 x 66 cm. . [CH].
• To date, only two other paintings by the artist from this year have been documented, one of which is lost.
• Pechstein captures a brief moment, a storm in the distance with lightning, towering dark clouds, and a short rainbow.
• In the center of the picture, above the sophisticated cloud reflection, delicate sunshine announces the storm's end.
• The scene presumably depicts the mill stream with a view of vast meadows and a river at Lake Sarbsko (today Jezioro Sarbsko) near Leba in West Pomerania.
• In 2024, the artist was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the Museum Wiesbaden.
Accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Aya Soika, Berlin, dated September 29, 2015. The painting is registered in the archive of the Max Pechstein copyright community, Hamburg, under the number 1941/3.