Brettell Lecture: Thoma's "Olive Grove at Lake Garda"

Based on the artist's memories of his travels to Italy, Hans Thoma's Olive Grove at Lake Garda shows two peasant girls tending sheep in a serene grove of olive trees. Dr. Felix Kramer, head of modern art at the Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, will discuss Thoma, who was considered "the favorite artist of the German people" at the turn of the century, and place this magnificent landscape in the larger context of his oeuvre.