Lunch (The Soup, version II)

• Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926)
• 1910
• Oil on canvas
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

In this painting, Albin Egger-Lienz depicted the peasants’ daily life in Tyrol, where he was born, in reverential manner. Men and women are sitting around a heavy table, eating their meal in quiet concentration. The air is calm, peaceful, and introspective. Sunlight seeps through the window on the left to give the painting harmonious colors and contrasts of shadows and light at the same time. View of a field and a log cabin outside the window gives depth and tranquility to the painting. Egger-Lienz thoroughly explored this subject, enough to leave 25 variants.