/internal/media/dispatcher/52624/fullThe Return of the Herd1844[Michael Neder]Michael NederOil on wood The tightly packed herd is heading back to the farm. Flat bodies fill the picture’s narrow, stage-like space. By arranging the animals in parallel to the picture plane, Michael Neder dispenses with space-creating perspective. In this respect, the artist was already defying the prevailing ideas about art in his day. While his artist colleagues were always striving to surpass themselves with their superlative colors and sophisticated compositions, Neder confined his color scheme to only a few hues. His art left his contemporaries baffled. The painter Friedrich Gauermann was one of the few to recognize and foster Neder’s talent. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2462/rdf