"Westfälisches Dorf im Sommer", 1912, WVZ-Nr. 21 (catalogue raisonée no. 21).
Peter August Böckstiegel, the son of Westphalian farmers, attended after a glazier and painter apprenticeship the painting school in Bielefeld, where he met with Ludwig Godewols on a teacher who animates his students to visit galleries and museums. Böckstiegel takes one of the first excursions to the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, founded by Karl Ernst Osthaus, where in 1909 he first encountered works by Vincent van Gogh. The Sonderbund exhibition shown in Cologne three years later impressed him no less. In the outstanding show of European contemporary art production, Van Gogh's works are dedicated to several spaces.

"Rooms with works of the blazing flaming writing of Van Gogh's spirit. Gauguin's calm, rich posture, black tropical jungle, fairytale calm and beauty radiating. [...] A hurricane of unbelievable power and abundance of artistic and intellectual formation shook me, drove me back to Arrode to work. "(PA Böckstiegel, Notes of my Life, quoted from: David Riedel, Peter August Böckstiegel.) The Paintings 1910-1951 , Munich 2014, p. 25)

In the same year, 1912, the painting "Westphalian Village in Summer" was created, which illustrates Böckstiegel's reception not only of van Gogh but also of the works of the 'Fauves'. The complementary colors orange-red to blue and green increase each other to a highly expressive radiance and evoke the impression of a supersensitive nature experience. Böckstiegel creates an exceptionally strong mood in the processing of the colorful, glowing Mediterranean landscapes of his artistic role models.