Exhibited: Charlottenborg, “Bertha Wegmanns Mindeudstilling”, October 1926.

Flower painting was one of Bertha Wegmann’s many motif groups, and she was particularly interested in the wild nature, which is seen in her many depictions of wild-growing trees, plants, and flowers in their natural landscapes and bouquets of wildflowers. Flowering fruit branches are also included in several of Wegmann’s paintings – in some as an element in a larger whole of beautifully arranged tableaus, e.g. as in the painting “Blå vifte ved en grøn kande med blomstrende æblegren” (Blue fan beside a green jug with flowering apple branches) at the Hirschsprung Collection. In other works, the fruit branches or trees are the motif itself, as in the present painting, where Wegmann has focused exclusively on the treetops with the delicate pink newly sprouted flowers against the clear blue spring sky.