<Potager - Garten (Der Kultivierte Küchengarten)>

In the mid-1970s, the painter Otto Schauer stayed in the Perche, a French region dotted with manor houses and hedged farmland, several times. The windows of the studio made available to him overlooked a vegetable garden in the throes of being replanted. In 1979-1980, it inspired around twenty paintings, of which this is the largest. Reconciling the order and chaos specific to this garden, bright yellow saturates the space and, through its chromatic intensity, encapsulates the explosive energy of nature in spring.