During his one-year stay in Munich, the Danish painter Wilhelm Bendz, like many of his contemporary colleagues, travelled to the surrounding region and created small landscape studies. At the Kochelsee on the edge of the Bavarian Alps, he found a waterfall pouring out of a hollow in the middle of steep cliffs as a motif. Instead of locating it in its scenic surroundings with the sky, however, Bendz's choice of detail makes the study almost abstract, drawing the eye to the contrasting shapes and colours of the rocks, fallen tree trunks and watercourse.