Worn Out

The Funen painter H.A. Brendekilde’s masterpiece “Worn Out” is just the thing for a tragic cover story. A day-labourer has collapsed in his field. Next to him a woman is screaming of helplessness. The picture was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and also at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The bourgeois press, on the other hand, considered it melodramatic and ove…