Gebouw te Löbtau 1876 - 1951

This sketch of a building in Löbtau by Theo Nieuwenhuis is made with loose, scribbled lines. It captures a building not as a static object, but as something felt and seen in a particular moment. You can almost feel Nieuwenhuis standing there, charcoal in hand, quickly trying to capture the essence of the place. Those fast, repetitive lines create the textures of the walls and rooftops, as if he's trying to map the very sensation of seeing. I wonder if he paused, squinted, maybe felt a breeze while drawing this. There’s a real connection to other sketchers and painters here, like Van Gogh, who used similar marks to build up the emotional weight of a scene. It’s a reminder that artists are always in dialogue, borrowing and building on each other's ways of seeing and feeling.