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As a young man the painter Ejnar Nielsen went to live in the Gjern area near Silkeborg. He was fascinated by the monumental landscape and the harsh circumstances it offered the people living there. In the painting Landscape from Gjern, we see the landscape so typical of central Jutland, rolling hills and changing fields, only interrupted by small clusters of dark trees. It might have been pictured idyllically, but in the world of Ejnar Nielsen a crushing silence looms. The sky is grey, the landscape still, no sign of life. Ejnar Nielsen turns the landscape into a symbol of the conditions of life by endowing it with equal amounts of vastness and deserted barreness. Kristine Hoff |
