Landscape with Sheaves of Corn

• Leopold Blauensteiner (1880–1947)
• 1902/03
• Oil on canvas
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

Towering sheaves of corn define this expansive, hilly landscape. It is an early work by Leopold Blauensteiner that harmoniously combines the foreground and the background. The ocher corn stooks that were common at the time characterize a summery landscape after the harvest. Blauensteiner explored Japanese woodcuts and Impressionist works, and this painting reveals the results in terms of the composition and the use of colors.