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Oil on canvas, pasted on cardboard. 1976.
Signature: EW / EdgarWalter 1976.a.

Edgar Valter’s (1929-2006) nature paintings also carry the artist’s own philosophy of life within them. Valter, who felt best in the forest, in a place undisturbed by the noise of the world, knew how to create new, real worlds there. These refuges where the artist escaped to were like nests for him to take care of. So, while wandering through the forests, the artist collected broken branches and differently shaped tree trunks, from which the forest elders, fairies, Mossbeards and finally the gnome were born at home – a symbiosis of the co-creation of nature and man.

Valter transferred these small, but rich in content, personal worlds to the canvas through distorted forms, mostly round, to refer to the shape of the earth itself. In this painting, the rest of the world is symbolically left bright and empty – to emphasize the importance of being alone with one’s thoughts.

Text: Katre Palm