Signed, circa 1920, this large panoramic oil by Wilhelm Friedrich Burger (1882–1964) shows Lake Zürich at Rüschlikon, Switzerland.

Although Burger cannot be categorised as a Symbolist in the strictest sense, his palette, his penchant for jagged outlines and his ethereal skies owe much to Ferdinand Hodler, the leading Swiss painter of the late nineteenth century. Hovering between Realism and Symbolism in style, this late-afternoon view over the Zürichsee from the edge of the lake at Rüschlikon is an overt homage to Hodler, who painted nearly 150 pictures of the Swiss lakes, many of them in a similar, panoramic format.

Collectors of Ferdinand Hodler's circle and of early twentieth-century Swiss Symbolist/Realist lake painting will find this large-format, panoramic canvas a striking and ambitious example of Burger's Hodler-influenced style.