In this scene of fishermen launching boats and hauling nets, Max Pechstein found peace after experiencing the horrors of World War I (1914-18). He had visited the charming Italian fishing village of Monterosso four years earlier, back in 1913. But the war intervened before he could realize his sketches as paintings. Released after three years fighting on the Western Front, he finally returned to his studio and his Monterosso sketches. The war seems far away from this sunny Mediterranean beach.