Description:
Rudolf Thost (1868-1921) was a German-born painter. He studied at the Academy in Dresden, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. He painted portraits, still lifes, church interiors and landscapes. His works were most often exhibited in Munich.

Description of the painting:
A tree-lined avenue leads to houses in the distance. Their roofs, as well as the branches of the trees, are adorned with white snow. It also lies on a larger area of grass, in the background of the composition. However, on the foreground path the snow is melting into unpleasant puddles reflecting their brownish-green surfaces in the tree trunks. The sky is covered with a dark gray, barely visible from outside the clustered, dark branches.

The composition of quite large size, vertically elongated emphasizes the trees along the avenue. The artist has painted very suggestively a March, humid day, in which the last throes of winter are fighting with the slowly approaching spring. The gray sky, cold browns and greens, dark tree contours create an uneasy, unfriendly atmosphere, not encouraging to walk along the tree-lined avenue. The snow, which enriches and brightens the composition, stops for a moment in a few selected places. Rudolf Thost was a German artist specializing in, in addition to landscape, also in still lifes and portrait. In his work one can also find images of church interiors. He studied at the Dresden Academy, as well as in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart.