Girl Above the Fjord — Hans Andersen Brendekilde Postcard

A young girl with a single blonde braid, dressed in a brown bodice and white apron, sits on a large rock among yellow wildflowers on a hillside above a broad fjord. She looks past the flowers toward the water, where low islands sit on the horizon and thatched farmhouses cluster in the valley below. Hans Andersen Brendekilde placed her at exactly the point where the everyday — clogs, an apron, an ordinary hillside — meets the wide, unhurried view beyond. A small window onto the Funen countryside he returned to again and again.