Year 1860 (1860) Location Ateneum, Helsinki Created 1860 | Medium oil on canvas Artist Werner Holmberg | |
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Dimensions 88 cm × 103.5 cm (35 in × 40.7 in) Similar Out into the World, Hearing the Homework, Mail Road in Häme, The Wounded Angel, Burning the Brushwood | ||
Häme road or Hot summer day is the most famous work of Werner Holmberg (1830–1860). It was painted in 1860. Though short, Holmberg's career helped develop Finnish landscape painting. He combined the traditional landscape painting techniques of the atelier with the modern outdoor en plein air landscape.
In the painting, a horse-drawn wagon is driving along a rolling country road through a pine forest of Tavastia. The painting depicts the carriage from the rear on a hot day. Trees and vegetation are painted with accuracy and the perspective of the image from the fresh wheel marks in the dirt creates an impression of movement. One can almost smell the dust and pine forest under the wheels.
In 1853 Holmberg was the first Finnish artist to study in Düsseldorf. From surviving sketches, Holmberg's Road in Häme was probably painted in the Tampere region.