The Artist's Father

Standing next to a storm-beaten coast, this man in his black gown recalls different images of death. As in Ingmar Bergman’s film The Seventh Seal. The painting is, however, a portrait of the artist’s father, Lucas von Breda. An average adjuster, his job was to investigate accidents at sea. This explains the special background and the depiction of the model as an emissary of fate who appears when v…