在上世纪与本世纪之交的德国风景画特别是德国北部风景画与我们所较为了解的同时期的法国印象主义风景画有着明显的不同。北方的环境和德意志民族的特质,使它拥有了一种与众不同的沉郁和冷峻的诗情。在德国,公认的北部风景画的杰出代表画家就是奥托·莫的逊(Otto-Modersohn,1865—1943)。这个主要活动于上世纪90年代至本世纪30、40年代的风景画家,在最近的几年中由于 The German landscapes of the last century and the turn of the century, especially the landscape paintings of northern Germany, are clearly different from the French impressionist landscapes of our contemporaries. The northern environment and the qualities of the German nation give it a distinctly depressing and solemn poetic touch. In Germany, the outstanding representative painter of the acknowledged northern landscape is Otto-Modersohn (1865-1943). This major activity in the 90s of last century to the 30s and 40s of this century landscape painter, in recent years due to