Karl Burman seenior 1882–1965 View of the Farm. 1943

During the difficult years of war, Karl Burman Sr. created a number of motifs depicting his homeland with love and tenderness. The exact location of this particular farm view is unknown, but at the time Burman Sr. moved around quite extensively, for example in the Rannamõisa area.

The architectural precision of the buildings is not intended as dryness—rather, Burman admires the archaic character of rural farm structures and, in uncertain times, creates a portrait of something he wishes to endure. At a moment when the homeland, in its former state, was slipping away, the artist set himself the task of preserving, at least within his small-scale work, the past as unchanged and protected.