Grain Harvest in the district of Berchtesgaden

This rapidly constructed work reveals individual stages in its creation – from the pencil sketch, through the ink drawing, to the colouring in watercolour, gouache and opaque white.
In the "Grain Harvest", Reinhold has captured a moment in rural working life. In the left foreground, the sheaves are being loaded on to a cart drawn by a white and a brown ox; a woman with a whip is keeping an eye on them. Work is going on by a further cart in the middle ground. In the background, the massifs of Watzmann and Hochkalter round off the ink drawing. The perpetual ice – shown on the Watzmann by opaque white highlights – is now receding due to hotter summers, and in danger of disappearing altogether. The stylised silhouette of the Watzmann is a landmark now used as the logo of Berchtesgaden.

DUCKE Astrid: Berchtesgaden • Watzmann, in: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas (Hrsg./Edited): Stadt ∙ Land ∙ Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town ∙ Landscape ∙ Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2022, S./p. 110–111