The Schlachtensee near Berlin as portrayed above combines a sense of rest and peacefulness with melancholia; the darkness of the forest and the glimmering reflection of the last rays of the sun mingle to a quiet harmony. It was painted in 1895 by Walter Leistikow, one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession. http://gerrie-thefriendlyghost.blogspot.nl/2013/01/helene-mass-ma-painter-printmaker-ii.html