/internal/media/dispatcher/91811/fullExhausted StrengthDie tote Mutter1854[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on canvas Only a candle illuminates the room, casting light on an infant sleeping peacefully in a crib. On the wooden floor alongside, and easily overlooked, the child’s mother has collapsed in exhaustion. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller uses this drastic scene to draw attention to the precarious situation faced by women coping alone with daily life and a child in the 19th century. With searing honesty, the artist tells of being stretched to breaking point and of abject poverty. In no other of his works do we encounter such Realism. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2454/rdf