rural-western-europe-1940-framed-canvas

 One of the few pieces in the collection with a specific year embedded in its title — 1940, the year the war arrived in Western Europe. The scene is ostensibly pastoral: a farmstead, fields, a lane. But the specific date turns everything into context. Czimber paints this landscape the way you paint something you're afraid of losing: carefully, from multiple angles, with no element left as background.