Boom bij een begraafplaats in de Preanger op Java 1899 - 1913

Wijnand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp made this etching of a graveyard in Java in 1913. I can imagine him carefully scratching the plate and thinking about the inevitability of death. Look how the textures of the foliage contrast with the broad, bare plain in the foreground. Nieuwenkamp is really playing with depth here. These hanging vines create a thick curtain of moss and leaf. Look how the hanging foliage hides part of the scene, as if he is revealing and concealing information simultaneously. I wonder whether he knew the work of Odilon Redon? He would have enjoyed it. The longer I look at this etching, the more I feel that Nieuwenkamp is also having a conversation with all the artists that came before him, and also talking to us now. What do you think?