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Despite its harvest theme, I think this ravishing colour etching by Arthur Illies a suitable image for the turn of the year. It was published by the Jugendstil art revue Pan in 1896. Its title, Mondaufgang, means Moonrise, though this print also seems to be known as Ripe Cornfield, Evening, under which title it is one of the treasures of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at Birmingham University. A gallery assistant at the Barber, Sarah Brown, writes eloquently about it here . As she writes, "The variety of colour throughout this image is immense, as gold, sienna and turquoise bring the mass of corn to life." This is landscape imbued with that spiritual potentiality that Gerard Manley Hopkins called "inscape". Arthur Illies, Mondaufgang Etching, 1896 The painter and printmaker Arthur Karl Wilhelm Illies was born in Hamburg in 1870, and died in L�neberg in 1952. Illies studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Art, after which he returned to Hamburg, under the patronage