Watercolor;
Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left (illegible);
Passepartout opening unopened: 10.83 x 13.98 in inch framed;
The landscape watercolors of the Upper Austrian painter Ernst Balluf, inspired by William Turner and Emil Nolde, are distinguished by a subtle interplay of muted, deliberately layered tonal transitions and an extremely delicate, precise graphic line. This combination gives his atmospheric depictions of nature—particularly those of the Mühlviertel—a harmonious balance between naturalistic accuracy and gentle abstraction.