Page "Emile Claus" Paragraph 45
from
Wikipedia
The Ice Birds ( 1891 ) shows an icy landscape with playing children.
The painting was inspired by the novella of the same title by the Waregem novelist Léonce Ducatillon.
The naturalistic story is set at the Keukelmeersen (‘ keukel meadows ’), a swampy area with dips, drains, ditches and trenches near the centre of Waregem.
Every winter, it got flooded and changed into a wide icy plain.
At the end of the story, one of the poor hungry boys falls through the ice while trying to pull out a frozen fish, and drowns.
The painting is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent ( Belgium ).
Page 1 of 1.
2.003 seconds.