Deep in thought, Hauptmann appears to be writing in a journal cradled in his arms while standing at the seashore.

Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946) was a prominent German dramatist of the early 20th century who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912.  His early naturalistic plays are still frequently performed.  Hauptmann’s best-known works include The Weavers (1893), a humanist drama of a rebellion against the mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution , and Hannele (1884), about the conflict between reality and fantasy. 1.

1. Pegasos : Finnish online literary website