Naïve Style Mixed Media Village Landscape by H. Becker

This artwork is an original mixed media painting on board, framed in a white-washed wooden frame with subtle groove detailing. The piece depicts a charming rural village scene featuring several rustic dwellings and a group of small figures, likely children, dispersed throughout the foreground. The painting style is distinctly naïve or folk-art influenced, characterized by a flattened perspective and simplified, expressive forms. The construction utilizes heavy impasto and textured layering, where paper or fabric may have been integrated into the ground to create a tactile, three-dimensional topographical effect, especially visible in the sky and building walls. The color palette is earthy, dominated by ochres, browns, and muted greens, contrasted by a hazy, multi-toned gray sky. A prominent signature reading 'Becker' is located in the lower right corner, executed in white pigment with a stylized, flowing hand. The treatment of the trees shows dark, spindly trunks reaching upward against the textured sky. No major damage is currently visible, though the impasto texture is prone to minor cracking over time; the current condition appears stable with a light patina consistent with a mid-20th-century to contemporary era of production. The craftsmanship shows a deliberate choice of texture to convey a sense of aged masonry and weathered surfaces.